Suppose that you and a group of other students want to conduct a study on mental rotation, using photographs of human faces. You find that people take longer to rotate a mental image, as the size of the rotation increases
Which approach do your data support?
a. the propositional approach
b. the analog approach
c. both the propositional approach and the analog approach
d. neither the propositional nor the analog approach
Ans: b
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