Planning during Map Learning: The Global Strategies of High and Low Visual-Spatial Individuals

This Note investigates the relationship between people's visual-spatial ability and their global strategies for learning maps. The results are based on experiments in which 25 subjects differing in spatial restructuring and visual memory abilities provided verbal protocols while attempting to l...

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Main Author: Stasz,Cathleen
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomy and Physiology
ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING
ATTENTION
LEARNING
MEMORY(PSYCHOLOGY)
PERCEPTION(PSYCHOLOGY)
PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
PROBLEM SOLVING
Psychology
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
STRATEGY
TEACHING METHODS
TEST AND EVALUATION
VERBAL BEHAVIOR
VISUAL PERCEPTION
WUNR157410
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Summary:This Note investigates the relationship between people's visual-spatial ability and their global strategies for learning maps. The results are based on experiments in which 25 subjects differing in spatial restructuring and visual memory abilities provided verbal protocols while attempting to learn maps. These protocols suggested a number of strategies that subjects used to approach the learning problem. Three strategies structured the learning task of successful map learners by providing algorithms for systematically focusing attention on various subsets of map information. Unsuccessful map learners adopted other or no strategies. Subjects high in visual-spatial ability tended to adopt these attention-focusing strategies, while most low-ability subjects used no systematic strategy. (Author)