Ideas in this lesson are also related to concepts found in these Common Core State Standards: 1  CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.
Differentiation typically refers to a developmental process when a skill becomes more sophisticated and broken into subsets.
In cognitive psychology, prototype theory describes how people categorize things. A prototype is considered a central member (or the central member) of a category.rototype theory was developed as an alternative to the classical theory. Categories and concepts, according to this theory, are probabilistic rather than definitional in nature. They are radially structured, with some members more central than others. The items in a category generally have graded degrees of membership.