cognitive map

(noun)

a mental epresentation which serves an organism to acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday environment

Related Terms

  • cognitive learning
  • sociobiology

Examples of cognitive map in the following topics:

  • Latent Learning

    • Latent learning occurs without any obvious conditioning or reinforcement of a behavior, illustrating a cognitive component to learning.
    • This means that learning can be completely cognitive and not instilled through behavioral modification alone.
    • This cognitive emphasis on learning was important in the development of cognitive psychology.
    • Tolman theorized that the rats in the third group had indeed been learning a "cognitive map" of the maze over the first ten days; however, they'd had no incentive to run the maze without any errors.
    • While you had developed a cognitive map of the area through latent learning, you'd never demonstrated a behavior that indicated you had done so until you were required to.
  • Limbic System

    • Hippocampus: Required for the formation of long-term memories and implicated in maintenance of cognitive maps for navigation.
    • Cingulate gyrus: Conducts autonomic functions regulating heart rate, blood pressure, and cognitive and attentional processing
  • Cognitive Learning and Sociobiology

    • Cognitive learning relies on cognitive processes such as reasoning and abstract thinking; it is much more efficient than conditioning.
    • In the reverse scenario, conditioning cannot help someone learn about cognition.
    • Classic work on cognitive learning was done by Wolfgang Köhler with chimpanzees.
    • Tolman proved a decade later that the rats were making a representation of the maze in their minds, which he called a "cognitive map."
    • Describe research models that indicate the presence of cognitive learning in animals
  • Language and Perception

    • This principle holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize his or her world (worldview) or otherwise influences their cognitive processes.
    • The strong version states that language determines thought and emotions/feelings, and linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories
    • The strongest form of correlation is linguistic determinism, which holds that language entirely determines the range of possible cognitive processes of an individual.
    • This position often sees the human mind as mostly a biological construction, so that all humans sharing the same neurological configuration can be expected to have similar or identical basic cognitive patterns.
    • Cognition and Communication Research Centre film describing recent research on the mapping between language and perception, and whether the language one speaks affects how one thinks.
  • Cognitive Biases as a Barrier to Decision Making

    • Decision making is inherently a cognitive activity, the result of thinking that may be either rational or irrational (i.e., based on assumptions not supported by evidence).
    • By categorizing individuals in terms of four dichotomies—thinking and feeling, extroversion and introversion, judging and perception, and sensing and intuition—the MBTI provides a map of the individual's orientation toward decision making.
    • The most common cognitive biases are confirmation, anchoring, halo effect, and overconfidence.
    • Examine the complex individual influences central to the way in which decision making is pursued, most notably the cognitive, normative, and psychological perspectives
  • Motor Areas

    • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex – Important for executive functions, including working memory, cognitive flexibility, and abstract reasoning.
    • Various experiments examining the motor cortex map showed that each point in motor cortex influences a range of muscles and joints, indicating significant overlapping in the map.
  • Stages of Cognitive Development

    • Review the four major stages of cognitive development: Piaget's Stages (http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?
  • Positioning Bases

    • By using customer research and perceptual mapping, a marketer can create a positioning statement using one of the three main bases.
    • Positioning is facilitated by perceptual mapping to determine the ideal points of consumers.This helps to determine if positioning should be functional, symbolic, or experiential.
    • By using customer research and perceptual mapping, a marketer can create a positioning statement using one of the three main bases.
  • Basic Map Types

    • Below are some of the most frequently used kinds of thematic maps.
    • Dot maps use dots to show comparative densities of features over a base map.
    • As do dot maps, graduated symbol maps use symbols that occur at points across a map.
    • Choropleth maps are the most common and easily recognized of the thematic maps.
    • Like graduated symbol maps, choropleth maps can be proportional or range-graded variations.
  • Physical Maps and Integration with Genetic Maps

    • Physical maps display the physical distance between genes and can be constructed using cytogenetic, radiation hybrid, or sequence mapping.
    • There are three methods used to create a physical map: cytogenetic mapping, radiation hybrid mapping, and sequence mapping.
    • Sequence mapping resulted from DNA sequencing technology that allowed for the creation of detailed physical maps with distances measured in terms of the number of base pairs.
    • Genetic maps provide the outline and physical maps provide the details.
    • Describe the methods used to physically map genes: cytogenetic mapping, radiation hybrid mapping, and sequence mapping
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