While on vacation you remember passing a restaurant earlier in the day about halfway between your current location and your hotel. You visualize a map of the area and imagine 'scanning' from your current location back to your hotel (as is done in mental scanning experiments), and then imagine 'scanning' from your current location to the restaurant. What prediction could be made about your scanning behaviour in this example (based on prior work, i.e. mental scanning experiments)?
A)you will be unable to mentally scan to the restaurant but will have no problem doing the same when your hotel is the destination
B)you will be more likely to forget where the hotel is (as compared to the restaurant)
C)you will be more likely to forget where the restaurant is (as compared to the hotel)
D)it will take you longer to 'scan' to the hotel
E)it will take you longer to 'scan' to the restaurant

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EMental scanning experiments suggest that the time it takes to mentally scan between two points in a mental image increases with the distance between those points. Since the restaurant is halfway between your current location and the hotel, it will take less time to mentally scan to the restaurant than to the hotel, making both D and E correct.

While on Vacation You Remember Passing a Restaurant Earlier in the Day