GEOG 153C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Satisficing, Knowledge Organization, Behaviorism
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History of environmental perception & cognition: history in geography and related disciplines. Perception of natural hazards (floods, droughts) psychologists would call these beliefs and attitudes a: why don"t people move? c. Firey (1945) sentiment and symbolism as ecological variables in. ), so geographers should study last terrae incognitae: mental worlds. The most fascinating terrae incognitae of all are those that lie within the minds and hearts of men (p. 15) c: robinson (1952) the look of maps. 1: maps are meant to communicate to people b. c. human psychology should be applied to map design, to make it better start of cognitive map-design research (human factors or experimental cartography) Lynch (1960) the image of the city (below) Thompson (1963) new concept: subjective distance in journal of. Trowbridge (1913) imaginary maps in science a. talked about human systems for orienting according to different reference systems (e. g. , domicentric according to one"s home location) cited gulliver"s work on map orientation b.
