Ragini is mentally representing a map of her town. She represents a number of different landmarks. She will most likely estimate that the distance between two houses that look very similar as ____ the distance between two that look different, even if the distances are, in fact, identical.
a. longer than
b. shorter than
c. the same as
d. variably different than
Ques. 2The rotation heuristic states that people tend to represent ____.
a. upside-down objects as right-side-up
b. slightly slanted objects as more oblique than they are
c. rotating objects as being still
d. slightly slanted objects as being more horizontal or more vertical than they really are
Ques. 3Bill has often seen a main city street lined with buildings. He attempts to mentally represent the street, but he distorts it so that the buildings are all the same distance from the street, when in reality they are different distances from the street. Which heuristic has Bill used?
a. the rotation heuristic
b. the relative-position heuristic
c. the symmetry heuristic
d. the alignment heuristic
Ques. 4According to Barbara Tversky's alignment heuristic, people tend to ____.
a. have no idea what proper alignment of landmarks should be
b. distort their mental images so that landmarks are better aligned than they are in reality
c. distort their mental images so that landmarks are less well aligned than they are in reality
d. produce seemingly random changes in imagined alignment
Ques. 5Tversky's propositional heuristics include the ____ heuristic.
a. landmark
b. survey
c. relative-position
d. route-road
Ques. 6When estimating distances between two cities connected by a highway, people tend to rely most heavily on ____.
a. route-road knowledge
b. relative-position
c. survey
d. procedural map
Ques. 7The ____ heuristic seems equally strong in memory and perception.
a. alignment
b. relative-position
c. symmetry
d. rotation
Ques. 8The map that Quinlan draws of the city that he lives in appears to be more even than what it really is. Streets that are not of the same length as in his drawing. The distribution of the city appears to be more even that what it really is. This is consistent with ____.
a. route-road knowledge
b. relative-position heuristic
c. symmetry heuristic
d. survey knowledge
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