Author Question: Understanding how people perceive reality is important to understanding world politics because a. ... (Read 75 times)

pepyto · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

Understanding how people perceive reality is important to understanding world politics because

a. all people ascribe their own meaning to objective facts.
b. all people make assumptions about the world that lead to actions.
c. simplification of the world through a mental map is inevitable and necessary.
d. the images people make to understand the world inevitably simplify reality by exaggerating some features and ignoring others.
e. All of the above are true.

Question 2

The different types of maps illustrated by the Mercator projection and Peter's projection

a. each portrays a different image of the distribution of the Earth's land surfaces and territory.
b. show how difficult it is to perfectly represent the three-dimensional globe on a two-dimensional piece of paper.
c. show how perceptions can distort even something as basic and seemingly objective as the size and location of the world's continents.
d. each highlights some feature of the globe while ignoring others.
e. All of the above are true.