Which of the following would be the best example of culture affecting categorization?
A) A five-year-old child calls a dolphin a "fish."
B) A Japanese man takes off his shoes before entering a house.
C) A woman from a traditional hunter-gather society categorizes plants as edible, inedible, or medicinal, instead of as flower, root, berry, etc.
D) A farmer sees a picture of a chicken sandwich in a magazine and decides to make himself one for lunch.

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The way in which the woman from the traditional hunter-gather society categorizes plants is a result of her cultural upbringing and knowledge about plants, which is different from the way in which someone from a more industrialized society may categorize them. This demonstrates how culture can affect categorization. The other options do not necessarily represent how culture affects categorization.

Which of the Following Would Be the Best Example of Culture