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Peer reviewedStasz, Cathleen; Thorndyke, Perry W. – Cognitive Psychology, 1980
Two experiments investigated learners' procedures in acquiring knowledge from maps. The better learners used successful techniques for encoding spatial information, evaluating their progress, focusing attention on unlearned information, and partitioning the map by spatial region or concept. Visual memory ability was also important. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Higher Education, Individual Differences
