Author Question: Suppose that you are drawing a map, from memory, of the streets and buildings in a city you know ... (Read 77 times)

amal · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose that you are drawing a map, from memory, of the streets and buildings in a city you know well. If you were to show a bias in your recall of the buildings, you would be likely to

a. place the buildings in a cluster near the center of town.
b. place buildings with similar functions near each other.
c. fail to recall clusters from certain geographic regions.
d. first place one cluster of related buildings on the map, and then insert other important buildings on the map one at a time.

Question 2

Suppose that you have just studied a map of a region, and you have formed a cognitive map for it. Based on what you know from Chapter 7, we could predict that

a. you would estimate that two cities are far apart if there are many other cities in between.
b. you would estimate that two cities are close if there are many cities in between.
c. the number of intervening cities only influences distance estimates when people are very familiar with the route.
d. the number of cities on the route between two cities has little effect on distance estimates.