Studies of the Cognitive Representation of Spatial Relations: II. A Familiar Environment.

And Others; Baird, John C.

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Publication Date: 1979-Mar

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Studies of the Cognitive Representation of Spatial Relations: II. A Familiar Environment.

And Others; Baird, John C.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, v108 n1 p92-98 Mar 1979

This experiment tested the ability of people to recall the locations of buildings in a familiar campus setting. Ten graduate students represented the relative locations of buildings by pairwise distance judgments and by direct mapping of locations on a Tektronix cathode ray terminal. Both methods led to accurate judgments. (Author/CTM)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Distance, Geographic Location, Higher Education, Maps, Multidimensional Scaling, Perception, Proximity, Recall (Psychology), Relationship, Spatial Ability, Visualization

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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