GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Semiotics, Signify, Time Capsule
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Video (examinable for midterm 1) feb 12th. Reading: knox et al, chapter 6, entire chapter. People filter information from their environments through mental processes: and everyone"s mental process is different, differences also exist by language, ethnicity, religion, geography, etc . People draw on personality and culture to produce cognitive images or cognitive maps of their environment: pictures or representations of the world that can be called to mind through the imagination, ex. Giving a child a pen and having them draw a map of their world: know this for midterm, use these to interpret past experiences and understanding to understand the image, there is no correct map, scale is unimportant. A cognitive image is more drawing like, it is not quantitative. Landscape serves as a kind of archive of society-landscape interaction: it is a reflection of culture and experiences. Like a book, landscape is a text written by individuals and groups.
