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Behavioural Geography is an ideology/approach that makes use of the methods and assumptions of behavourism to determine the cognitive processes involved in an individuals perception of, and/or response and reaction to their environment. The theory focuses on the coginitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, decision making and behaviour.  
Behavioural Geography is an ideology/approach that makes use of the methods and assumptions of behavourism to determine the cognitive processes involved in an individuals perception of, and/or response and reaction to their environment. The theory focuses on the coginitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, decision making and behaviour.  
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Due the lack of a theoritical base this theory was left open to critique.  
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Due the lack of a theoritical base this theory was left open to critique, although behavioural geography incorporates a number of concerns which are still influential in much geographical thinking:
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    - ''Perceptions'' people hold of hazards and environments
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    - ''Mental maps'' people have of the spaces and places around them
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    - The everyday ''spatial preferences'' people display in occupying or utilising certain spaces and places rather than others
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== '''References:''' ==
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Cloke, P., Philo, C., Sadler, D. (1999). Approaching Human Geography. Paul Chapman: London, 57-92.
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Behavioural Geography is an ideology/approach that makes use of the methods and assumptions of behavourism to determine the cognitive processes involved in an individuals perception of, and/or response and reaction to their environment. The theory focuses on the coginitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, decision making and behaviour. Due the lack of a theoritical base this theory was left open to critique, although behavioural geography incorporates a number of concerns which are still influential in much geographical thinking:

    - Perceptions people hold of hazards and environments
    - Mental maps people have of the spaces and places around them
    - The everyday spatial preferences people display in occupying or utilising certain spaces and places rather than others

References:

Cloke, P., Philo, C., Sadler, D. (1999). Approaching Human Geography. Paul Chapman: London, 57-92.


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