Organizing Knowledge Cognitively - Exemplars

Exemplars

Exemplars are similar to the prototype except your concept was formed by a mixture of different examples. This helps to limit undergeneralization, a common problem with using the prototype along. For example, when developing the concept of birds, not only learn about sparrows and pigeons but penguins and ostriches. By learning from a variety of examples, the concept is more complete and less susceptible to error.