COGNITIVE MAPPING - KNOWLEDGE OF REAL-WORLD DISTANCE AND LOCATION INFORMATION
COGNITIVE MAPPING - KNOWLEDGE OF REAL-WORLD DISTANCE AND LOCATION INFORMATION
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DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.6.1.13
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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PEZDEK, K
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作者:
EVANS, GW;PEZDEK, K
Three experiments with 41 undergraduates investigated how information about geographic environments is processed. In Exp I, response time to decide which of 2 pairs of states or buildings was physically closer in the real world increased as the ratio of the interpair distances approached 1. Exp II examined spatial memory for the interrelationships among states and buildings. Ss' reaction time to determine the accuracy of relative spatial positions of triads of states was a linear function of the degree of triad rotation from the 0 Cartesian plane of a standard US map. No linear rotation function was reported for triad rotations of buildings. In Exp III, Ss unfamiliar with the campus tested in Exps I and II learned the location of the buildings from a map only. This group's data reflected a linear trend of reaction time with degree of building triad rotation, similar to results with states in Exp II. Perhaps when an environment is primarily learned by a map, knowledge of the interpositions of items in the environment is formed in the single perspective of the map. This knowledge is more flexible and is processed from more perspectives when the environment is directly experienced.(12 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)