If you have just heard the word vegetable, you can quickly make judgments about the word carrot; in contrast, your judgments about the word mushroom take much longer. According to the prototype approach, this observation shows that:.a. family resemblance is stronger for prototypes than for non-prototypes.
b. prototypes are items that have the smallest number of connection weights.
c. after priming, people respond faster to prototypes than to non-prototypes.
d. basic-level categories are judged more quickly than superordinate-level categories.

C. after priming, people respond faster to prototypes than to non-prototypes.

Explanation: Memory training technique whereby an association is made with a stimulus in memory is called priming. The associated stimulus affects or determines our interpretation of the stimulus. It also aids an individual's ability to retrieve information from memory.

After priming, responding to closely related samples or associations is faster than non-related samples.

In the context above, faster judgment could be made about carrot which is a root vegetable having just heard the word vegetable. Mushrooms and vegetables aren't prototypes so it might take longer to make a pronouncement.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)