Question

Tabetha has a mental picture of the layout of her house, also called a ________, so when she comes home late at night she can navigate through the rooms without turning on a light.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer would be Cognitive Map.

Explanation:

Tabetha has a mental picture of the layout of her house, also called a Cognitive Map, so when she comes home late at night, she can navigate through the rooms without turning the lights on.

Cognitive Mapping is a concept which was introduced by Edward Tolman in 1948. In simple words, cognitive mapping is the mental representation on ones physical environment or space.

In technical terms, a cognitive map is a mental representation of an individual in which he acquires, codes, stores and recalls and decodes the information about a certain location in everyday environment.

So when Tabetha navigates through her house without turning on the lights, she actually has a cognitive map in her mind.