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The Construction of Mental Maps Based on a Fragmentary View of Physical Maps: Picture and Text Materials

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Zimmer, Hubert

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Participants acquired spatial knowledge of a fictitious island by studying either (a) a complete physical map, (b) a sequence of part maps each showing the outline of the island and a subset of the landmarks, or (c) a sequence of sentences each describing a part map. During test, they verified the direction between 2 landmarks. Spatial knowledge in the fragment condition was as high as in the complete map condition, and both were better than the text group. Response times showed a distance effect. Additionally, spatial relations really presented were judged faster than inferred relations. The author replicated these results in a condition in which only relative spatial information could be used. These results suggest that simultaneity is not critical for obtaining a map advantage in spatial learning and that the mental representation of the map is structured. This document contains the 27 part maps and the corresponding text sentences that were used in the conditions (b) and (c) described above.

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Kognitive Landkarte Lernen Karte Lernen - Kartenlernen Teilkarten kognitive Karte mentale Karte - Map Learning Partial Map Cognitive Map Mental Map Map Learning Partial Map Cognitive Map Mental Map

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2004

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  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Zimmer, Hubert
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-11-22T06:40:45Z
  • Made available on
    2005-02-23
  • Made available on
    2015-12-01T10:30:05Z
  • Made available on
    2022-11-22T06:40:45Z
  • Date of first publication
    2004
  • Abstract / Description
    Participants acquired spatial knowledge of a fictitious island by studying either (a) a complete physical map, (b) a sequence of part maps each showing the outline of the island and a subset of the landmarks, or (c) a sequence of sentences each describing a part map. During test, they verified the direction between 2 landmarks. Spatial knowledge in the fragment condition was as high as in the complete map condition, and both were better than the text group. Response times showed a distance effect. Additionally, spatial relations really presented were judged faster than inferred relations. The author replicated these results in a condition in which only relative spatial information could be used. These results suggest that simultaneity is not critical for obtaining a map advantage in spatial learning and that the mental representation of the map is structured. This document contains the 27 part maps and the corresponding text sentences that were used in the conditions (b) and (c) described above.
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  • Publication status
    unknown
  • Review status
    unknown
  • ISSN
    0022-0663
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-4564
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/202
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.11274
  • Language of content
    deu
  • Is part of
    Journal of Educational Psychology, 96 (3), 603-610; http://psydok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2005/456/
  • Is version of
    http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2005/449/
  • Keyword(s)
    Kognitive Landkarte
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Lernen
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Karte
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Lernen - Kartenlernen
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Teilkarten
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    kognitive Karte
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    mentale Karte - Map Learning
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  • Keyword(s)
    Partial Map
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  • Keyword(s)
    Cognitive Map
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  • Keyword(s)
    Mental Map
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  • Keyword(s)
    Map Learning
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  • Keyword(s)
    Partial Map
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  • Keyword(s)
    Cognitive Map
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  • Keyword(s)
    Mental Map
    en
  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    The Construction of Mental Maps Based on a Fragmentary View of Physical Maps: Picture and Text Materials
    de
  • DRO type
    article
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    PsyDok