Mathias works for an architectural firm that has been asked to build an office building on a particular lot.The lot is accessible from the road on three sides,and the client is unsure which way the building should face.Since the building has already been designed,Mathias is able to imagine it facing in different directions.By doing so,he can evaluate the pros and cons of each direction.Mathias is using
A) incubation.
B) linguistic relativity.
C) mental rotation.
D) motherese.

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Mathias is mentally rotating the image of the building to evaluate different orientations. Incubation refers to a period of unconscious processing, linguistic relativity is the idea that language affects thought processes, and motherese is a way of speaking to infants characterized by high pitch and exaggerated intonation patterns. None of these concepts apply to Mathias evaluating building orientations.

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