David Stea

Image and Environment

Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Behavior

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment. It refers to the attributes and relative locations of people and objects in the environment, and is an essential component in the adaptive process of spatial decision-making--such as finding a safe and quick route to from work, locating potential sites for a new house or business, and deciding where to travel on a vacation trip. Cognitive processes are not constant, but undergo change with age or development and use or learning. Image and Environment, now in paperback, is a pioneer study. It brings a new academic discipline to a wide audience. The volume is divided into six sections, which represent a comprehensive breakdown of cognitive mapping studies: "Theory"; "Cognitive Representations"; "Spatial Preferences"; "The Development of Spatial Cognition"; "Geographical and Spatial Orientation"; and "Cognitive Distance." Contributors include Edward Tolman, James Blaut, Stephen Kaplan, Terence Lee, Donald Appleyard, Peter Orleans, Thomas Saarinen, Kevin Cox, Georgia Zannaras, Peter Gould, Roger Hart, Gary Moore, Donald Griffin, Kevin Lynch, Ulf Lundberg, Ronald Lowrey, and Ronald Briggs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780202307664
• ISBN-10: 0202307662
• Artikelnr.: 21712327

Autorenporträt

David Stea

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD BY KENNETH BOULDING
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
I. THEORY
1. Cognitive Maps and Spatial Behavior: Process and Products
2. Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men
3. Notes Toward a Developmental Theory of Spatial Learning
4. Cognitive Maps in Perception and Thought
II. COGNITIVE REPRESENTATIONS
5. Psychology and Living Space
6. Notes on Urban Perception and Knowledge
7. Differential Cognition of Urban Residents: Effects of Social Scale on Mapping
8. How Citizens View Two Great Cities: Milan and Rome
9. Student Views of the World
10. Designative Perceptions of Macro-Spaces: Concepts
a Methodology
and Applications
III. SPATIAL PREFERENCE
11. On Mental Maps
IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL COGNITION
12. Some Preliminary Observations on Spatial Learning in School Children
13. The Black Boxes of Jônkôping; Spatial Information and Preference
14. The Development of Spatial Cognition: A Review
V. GEOGRAPHICAL AND SPATIAL ORIENTATION
15. Topographical Orientation
16. Some References to Orientation
VI. COGNITIVE DISTANCE
17. Emotional and Geographical Phenomena in Psychophysical Research
18. A Method for Analyzing Distance Concepts of Urban Residents
19. Urban Cognitive Distance
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NAME INDEX
INDEX OF PLACE NAMES
SUBJECT INDEX