Spatial Apperception Test (SAT)
The SAT shows you a view out of a cockpit and asks you to identify the aircraft's attitude: banked left or right, nose high or nose low, or a combination. No instruments are provided, only the horizon and the airframe reference.
The two rules that answer most items
First, bank. The wing that is low points toward the side of your view where the ground rises. In a right bank the horizon's right end appears higher and the ground fills the lower right of the windscreen; equivalently, the low wing's side of the horizon is the high end. In a left bank the reverse is true. Second, pitch. Nose up puts more sky in the windscreen and pushes the horizon down toward the bottom of the view; nose down puts the horizon high, near the top, with the ground dominating.
Traps
Reversing the bank direction, which is the most common error; confusing the bank angle with the direction of turn, since the picture shows attitude, not turn; forgetting that bank and pitch combine, so a horizon that is both tilted and low means, for example, nose high with the bank indicated by the tilt; and mixing up which side is the airframe reference versus the horizon.
Worked example
You see a horizon sloping upward to the right, with the ground filling the lower right of the view, and the horizon is low in the windscreen with a lot of sky visible above the nose. The tilt means the low wing is on the right, so the aircraft is in a right bank; the low horizon means the nose is up. Answer: right bank, nose high, a climbing right turn. Working through bank first and then pitch on every single item builds speed.