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FORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMATA

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Date Issued:
1978
Summary:
Man lacks the cognitive capabilities by which to process all the complex and detailed information of the environment, yet is able to formulate a comprehensive notion of the environment. The present study hypothesized that a cognitive mechanism exists by which salient information is abstracted and stored in memory. Subjects were required to learn to discriminate among four sets of photographs of an urban street scene, taken from four different locations within an area of 150 square meters. An identification test was administered either immediately or one week after acquisition, using photographs from the acquisition set and novel photographs taken from the same locations but at different camera orientations. The results indicated that subjects abstract a continuous schematic representation from discrete photographic samples of the total scene. These results suggest that man in a real-world situation remembers a general, schematic concept of the environment, rather than detailed, specific information.
Title: THE FORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMATA.
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Name(s): SCHMELZKOPF, KAREN FRANCES.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Lee, David R., Thesis advisor
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Geosciences
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1978
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 76 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Man lacks the cognitive capabilities by which to process all the complex and detailed information of the environment, yet is able to formulate a comprehensive notion of the environment. The present study hypothesized that a cognitive mechanism exists by which salient information is abstracted and stored in memory. Subjects were required to learn to discriminate among four sets of photographs of an urban street scene, taken from four different locations within an area of 150 square meters. An identification test was administered either immediately or one week after acquisition, using photographs from the acquisition set and novel photographs taken from the same locations but at different camera orientations. The results indicated that subjects abstract a continuous schematic representation from discrete photographic samples of the total scene. These results suggest that man in a real-world situation remembers a general, schematic concept of the environment, rather than detailed, specific information.
Identifier: 13939 (digitool), FADT13939 (IID), fau:10762 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1978.
Subject(s): Environmental psychology
Cognition
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