Suppose that you are drawing a map, from memory, of the streets and buildings in a city you know well. If you were to show a bias in your recall of the buildings, you would be likely to
a. place the buildings in a cluster near the center of town.
b. place buildings with similar functions near each other.
c. fail to recall clusters from certain geographic regions.
d. first place one cluster of related buildings on the map, and then insert other important buildings on the map one at a time.
Ans: b
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