Subjects then had to estimate what percentage of birds of each of several other species also had the disease. He found that subjects gave higher estimates when the species known to have the disease was judged to be a more typical bird than when it was judged to be a less typical bird. For example, higher estimates were given when robins were known to have the disease than when ostriches were known to have the disease. Your answer should include a brief description of the relation between typicality and family resemblance. An experimenter conducts the following experiment.
Subjects participate in one of two encoding conditions.
After the encoding task, subjects are given a surprise memory test. For the recall test, subjects are asked to recall as many of the words as they can. Their score is the number of words correctly recalled. Note that higher scores indicate better performance. For the estimation test, subjects are asked to estimate what percent of the words were printed in all capitals.