PSYCO351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spatial Memory, Eleanor Rosch, Observational Error
5 Apr 2016
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Quiz: what direction is san diego (in california) located with respect to. People make large systematic errors in judging the geographical relations between two locations that are in different geographical of political units. There is a strong tendency to distort the judged rlation to conform with the relation of the super-ordinate political unit. Examine judgments about real world locations which are in different political or geographical units. People may not know san diego and reno, but know california is closer to the coast than. Test whether geographical judgements are inferred when the items being judged are in different units. Congruent: x west of y, alpha west of beta, consistent. Incongruent: x east of y, alpha west of beta, inconsistent. Homogenous: control, no boundary (no alpha or beta county) The only significant effect was that due to super-ordinate information. Provides additional support for the idea that maps are represented in terms of super-ordinate units in memory.
