Memory for topographic contour maps
Memory for topographic contour maps
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地形等高线图存储器
DOI：
10.1111/j.2044-8295.1987.tb02257.x
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发表时间：
1987
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Michael J. Wood
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作者：
P. Kinnear;Michael J. Wood
地图阅读逐渐被认为是一项信息处理任务。本研究比较了记忆地形等高线图的实验样本谁回答了问题的轮廓在20分钟的检查阶段，并在控制样本谁回答了问题的距离在地图上，并确定了几个六位数的地图参考在类似的检查期间。样本选自13-15岁的小学生和大学生。实验样本中有63%的受试者在20分钟的时间间隔后从5张相似的地图中正确识别出了原始地图，而对照样本中只有11%的受试者能做到这一点。地理经验不是导致这一结果的因素。编码的主要单位或块似乎是山谷而不是山顶。结果表明，地图阅读可以被合理地视为一种信息加工活动，与等高线地图相关的记忆过程与心理学中其他更传统的信息加工任务具有相似的特征。
Map reading is becoming recognized as an information processing task. This research compared the memory for topographic contour maps in experimental samples who had answered questions about contours during a 20-minute inspection phase, and in control samples who had answered questions about distances on the map and determined several six-figure map references during a similar inspection period. The samples were selected from 13–15-year-old pupils and university students. Sixty-three per cent of the subjects in the experimental samples correctly recognized the original map from a collection of five similar maps after a 20-minute time interval whereas only 11 per cent of those in the control samples could do so. Geography experience was not a factor in this result. The principal unit or chunk for encoding seemed to be valleys rather than hill tops. It was concluded that map reading can legitimately be treated as an information processing activity and that memory processes relating to contour maps have similar characteristics to those demonstrated in other more traditional information processing tasks in psychology.