2011•Journal of Jining UniversityRequires access

Construction of Mental Maps in Geographical Teaching

Liu Ming-xia

Abstract

Mental map is a representation formed in the human brain by the map which contains a variety of geographic information.It plays a great role in developing students' comprehensive analysis capabilities,memory,imagination and spatial cognitive ability.Its core content is the relative location and their spatial relations.Construction of mental map is often a complex process gradually achieved from memorizing,understanding and applying of the paper map.

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Key concepts: Memorization, Mental mapping, Cognitive map, Mental representation, Variety (cybernetics), Representation (politics), Process (computing), Cognition