When Asked to Determine Which City Is Farther South, Seattle

Multiple Choice

When asked to determine which city is farther south, Seattle or Montreal, people are likely to mistakenly say "Seattle." This is probably because

A) people depend on their "gut feelings" when they don't know an answer.
B) some spatial information is stored in memory in a propositional form rather than an image form.
C) people are great at reading visual images and can discover surprising facts in them.
D) people are miserably bad at reading visual images, and so images are no help in this type of problem.