Author Question: Suppose you draw a map of a familiar street in your neighborhood. You draw all the houses an equal ... (Read 193 times)

crazycityslicker · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose you draw a map of a familiar street in your neighborhood. You draw all the houses an equal distance from the street, even though some houses are clearly closer to the street than others. Your error is an example of

a. the 90-degree angle heuristic.
b. the spatial framework model.
c. the symmetry heuristic.
d. the alignment heuristic.

Question 2

Suppose that you are listening to your professor's description of the layout of several buildings in a city. If the discussion of mental maps can be applied to your representation of this city, it is most likely that

a. you will store this information in a passive fashion, without creating a cognitive map.
b. your cognitive map will represent the distances as being larger than they really are.
c. you will construct a cognitive map to represent the arrangement of buildings.
d. your cognitive map will be highly inaccurate.