Question

You spend days wandering aimlessly around a park with many paths that end at different parts of the park. One day when you arrive at the park, you get a call on your cell phone from a cousin whom you haven't seen in years, and she says she is waiting for you in a particular section of the park. Even though the paths are complicated and twisted, you manage to find the shortest route to your cousin. Tolman would explain your efficient passage through the park as an example of _____ Group of answer choices

Answer 1

Answer:

formation of a cognitive map

Explanation:

From the question we are informed about instance, whereby you spend days wandering aimlessly around a park with many paths that end at different parts of the park. One day when you arrive at the park, you get a call on your cell phone from a cousin whom you haven't seen in years, and she says she is waiting for you in a particular section of the park. Even though the paths are complicated and twisted, you manage to find the shortest route to your cousin. Tolman would explain your efficient passage through the park as an example of formation of a cognitive map.

Formation of Cognitive Maps can be regarded as influential theory which proposes that memories that individual had during recently traveled routes are later combined together with those memories of previously traveled routes , then both memories will create an integrated map of that particular environment. Individual brain will creates a cognitive map by utilization of number of sources. visual stimulus as well as other cues such as olfaction and hearing so as to deduce ones location within an environment as one is moving through it.