Which of the following statements about cognitive mapping is correct?
a. Cognitive maps consistently use analog rather than propositional encoding.
b. The research on cognitive mapping is generally high in ecological validity.
c. Spatial cognition is a topic within cognitive mapping that deals exclusively with table-top models.
d. So far, almost all of the research on cognitive mapping has been confined to people's knowledge about the layout of college campuses.
Question 2The research on cognitive maps suggests that
a. peoplesurprisinglyare just as accurate in reading a road map when it does not match the orientation of their mental map as when it has the same orientation.
b. people create cognitive maps from several successive views, if the area is very large.
c. individual differences in people's senses of direction are very small.
d. there is a very high correlation between people's verbal skills and their skills in creating cognitive maps.
Question 3In your textbook, Chapter 7 discusses meta-analyses that focus on gender comparisons in cognitive abilities. Which of the following is the area in which gender differences are typically the largest?
a. verbal abilities
b. mathematics abilities
c. spatial abilities such as locating hidden figures in a drawing
d. spatial abilities such as mental rotation
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