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 2Suppose 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.
Question 3Which of the following students provides the most accurate general summary of the research on cognitive maps?
a. Francine: When people store spatial information, they tend to represent their cognitive maps as being more regular and orderly than they really are.
b. Justin: Unfortunately, people seem to have difficulty retaining visual information, and so our cognitive maps are highly inaccurate.
c. Ana Mara: People are actually much more accurate in creating cognitive maps than they are in recalling a story.
d. Oskar: People's mental maps for large geographic regions are fairly accurate, but their mental maps for small geographic regions are likely to reveal many errors.
Question 4Suppose you draw a map of Italy, and you show the boot located in a north-south direction, rather than slanted at an angle. This would be an example of the
a. regularization heuristic.
b. alignment heuristic.
c. symmetry heuristic.
d. rotation heuristic.
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