When Asked to Determine Which City Is Farther South, Seattle

question 7

Multiple Choice

When asked to determine which city is farther south, Seattle or Montreal, people are likely to mistakenly say "Seattle." This is probably because

• A) people depend on their "gut feelings" when they don't know an answer.
• B) some spatial information is stored in memory in a propositional form rather than an image form.
• C) people are great at reading visual images and can discover surprising facts in them.
• D) people are miserably bad at reading visual images, and so images are no help in this type of problem.

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