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Direct linkClump, Michael A. – College Student Journal, 2005
Individuals' mental maps of the world are highly misrepresentative of the actual world. Availability in memory partly explains the reasons for this misrepresentation. When asked to place the 50 states in their correct locations, students have difficulty with states not in close proximity to their own because of availability, such that the…
Descriptors: Proximity, Misconceptions, Locational Skills (Social Studies), Memory
