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

Abstract

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)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA096243

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  • Cathleen Stasz

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