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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. | ||
| - | Due the lack of a theoritical base this theory was left open to critique. | + | 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 | ||
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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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