Little Billy was accustomed to seeing Officer Sam O’Reilly walking around the block, but then one day he met Officer Sally Murdock. Billy gave her a suspicious look and said, “You can’t be an officer, you’re a lady.” Billy’s concept of a police officer was probably
A. based on a male prototype.
B. derived primarily from defining attributes.
C. refined from a complex schema.
D. verbal rather than intellectual.
Answer:A
Little Billy was accustomed to seeing Officer Sam O’Reilly walking around the block, but then one day he met Officer Sally Murdock. Billy gave her a suspicious look and said, “You can’t be an officer, you’re a lady.” Billy’s concept of a police officer was probably
A. based on a male prototype. B. derived primarily from defining attributes. C. refined from a complex schema. D. verbal rather than intellectual.
Explanation: A) Billy’s conception of a police officer was probably based on a male prototype, as a consequence of seeing only male exemplars. Thus, he failed to recognize Sally as a police officer because she was female.