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ap345

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on: Jun 20, 2018
When using landmark knowledge, people tend to distort their mental images so that their mental estimates of distances ____.
 
  a. increase in relation to the density of intervening landmarks
 b. decrease in relation to the density of intervening landmarks
 c. between landmarks stay the same no matter how many intervening landmarks are present
  d. increase as route-road perception overcomes landmark perception

Question 2

In a study in which participants were asked to estimate distances between buildings on a map they had seen, the participants guessed ____ distances when traveling to a landmark than when traveling to a non-landmark.
 
  a. longer
 b. shorter
 c. the same
 d. randomly varying


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b


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