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How do you TEST cognitive maps in children?
Ok, mabye i asked this wrong, but how do you TEST for a cognitive map in a child. I am completely stumped on how to do so, and everything on the web is just psychology mumbo jumo uppity crap that doesnt help me. And the other 65% of it are 20 page studies that dont even relate to my google search.
So, whats a clear example of how to test a cognitive map in a kid. Do i show them a picture of a room or something?
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- MaryLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Same way Tolman demonstrated cognitive maps in rats, just use a bigger and more pleasant maze. Weirdly, I can't find any decent web references describing his experiment.
Build a maze, with a goal box, and time how long it takes rats to reach the goal box given one trial per day, in three conditions:
Group A: always food in the goal box
Group B: never food in the goal box
Group C: no food in the goal box for 10 days, then food in the goal box
Tolman found that group A got faster and faster, as you'd expect. And group B never got any faster, as you'd expect. But group C were slow like group B for the first 10 days, then on day 11 became instantly as fast as group A, showing that they learned the layout of the maze even without a goal, so they could go straight to the food. Behaviourism/operant conditioning can't account for this finding, which can only be explained by the rats building a cognitive map of the maze.
The maze is a metaphor, don't put kids in mazes, build a playroom with a toy box or something...
