Abstract: . . .  experimental psychology Page 1 1 In Press: Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, & Cognition Global-Scale Location and Distance Estimates: Common Representations and Strategies in Absolute and Relative Judgments Alinda Friedman 1 and Daniel R. Montello 2 1 Department of Psychology , University of Alberta 2 Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara Send correspondence to: Alinda Friedman Department of Psychology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E9 Phone: 780-492-2909 Fax: . . .
. . .  experimental psychology Page 1 1 In Press: Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, & Cognition Global-Scale Location and Distance Estimates: Common Representations and Strategies in Absolute and Relative Judgments Alinda Friedman 1 and Daniel R. Montello 2 1 Department of Psychology , University of Alberta 2 Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara Send correspondence to: Alinda Friedman Department of Psychology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E9 Phone: 780-492-2909 Fax: 780-492-1768 . . .
. . .  consistent with this inferred representational structure, it will be strong evidence that the categorical nature of geographical representations and the ubiquity of plausible reasoning processes underlie most real-world geographical reasoning tasks at continental and global scales. Method Participants and design . The participants were 147 student volunteers (78 males, 66 females, and 3 who did not indicate their gender and had ambiguous names) who received extra credit for their participation. Three experimental tests were handed out to all students who wanted to receive the extra credit and were administered directly after they completed the final examination in the course. We scored data from only the 117 individuals who had lived in California since the age of five. Of these, 30 were eliminated from further consideration because they had missing data of some sort (e.g., they did not indicate whether their latitude estimates were in the northern or southern hemisphere; or they omitted some . . .
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