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mcmcdaniel

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Which of the following students provides the most accurate general summary of the research on cognitive maps?
 
  a. Francine: When people store spatial information, they tend to represent their cognitive maps as being more regular and orderly than they really are.
  b. Justin: Unfortunately, people seem to have difficulty retaining visual information, and so our cognitive maps are highly inaccurate.
  c. Ana Mara: People are actually much more accurate in creating cognitive maps than they are in recalling a story.
  d. Oskar: People's mental maps for large geographic regions are fairly accurate, but their mental maps for small geographic regions are likely to reveal many errors.

Question 2

Suppose you draw a map of Italy, and you show the boot located in a north-south direction, rather than slanted at an angle. This would be an example of the
 
  a. regularization heuristic.
  b. alignment heuristic.
  c. symmetry heuristic.
  d. rotation heuristic.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: a

Answer to Question 2

Ans: d



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