The idea that people treat members of a category as if they had some shared common underlying quality is __________.
A)psychological essentialism
B)prototypicality
C)exemplarism
D)extractionistics

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Psychological essentialism refers to the tendency to think of categories as having an underlying, immutable essence that defines their identity. This can lead people to see members of a category as sharing a common trait or quality, even when there is no actual evidence for such a shared essence. Prototypicality and exemplarism are related concepts, but they do not capture this aspect of seeing categories as having an essential nature. Extractionistics is not a recognized psychological concept.

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