Imagine that you read about research in which students study a map of an imaginary college campus. Then they are instructed to mentally travel between two points on this map.
According to their results, the mental travel time increases as the distance increases between the two points. These results seem to support
a. the analog code.
b. the propositional code.
c. the alignment heuristic.
d. the spatial framework model.
Question 2Suppose that you participate in a study in which the experimenter has strong beliefs about how the study should turn out, and these biases influence how you perform. This would be an example of
a. a propositional code.
b. the landmark effect.
c. a heuristic.
d. experimenter expectancy.
Question 3The research on mental rotation has shown that
a. people use very different strategies when they rotate letters of the alphabet, as opposed to abstract geometric figures.
b. right-handed people and left-handed people are basically identical in their ability to recognize pictures of left and right hands.
c. young people are typically faster than elderly people in the speed of their mental rotation.
d. young people and elderly people differ greatly in their sense of direction.
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