Suppose That Arthur Lives in Houston, Texas, and His Friend

question 67

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Arthur lives in Houston, Texas, and his friend Scott lives in a much smaller city about 20 miles from Houston. Arthur seems to think that it is farther from Houston to that small town, compared to the distance from the small town to Houston. Arthur is demonstrating the

• A) spatial framework model.
• B) landmark effect.
• C) alignment heuristic.
• D) rotation heuristic.

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Definitions:

Adaptive Function

Refers to the way behaviors or traits contribute to an organism's survival and reproductive success in its environment.

Genetic Level

Pertaining to or influenced by the genes, which are the units of heredity within the living organisms' DNA.

Biological Diversity

The variety and variability of life forms within a given ecosystem, region, or on the entire Earth, including the diversity of species, genetics, and ecosystems.

Clines

The gradual changes in the frequency of an allele or trait over space.