Mind Map
- Mind Mapping or Cognitive Mapping is one of the two skills
on the outcomes of this module.
- The course book is a fierce advocate of this technique
saying it will make everyone who uses it vastly more productive.
- I am not sure that it will help that much, but I do think
that cognitive maps are the way humans form complex concepts.
- Consequently, this can be useful in communicating and representing
knowledge.
- The rough format of a cognitive map is a graph. Nodes are
concepts, and arcs connect related concepts.
- Another option is to label the arcs.
- This is pretty much a semantic net (Quillian).
- Cognitive Maps have more complex weightings like bigger
roads on a physical map.
- Landmarks are particularly important. (Kaplan and Kaplan 1983).
- The course book has more elaborate options and includes
pictures.
- These are techniques to help you form and retain ideas.
A cognitive map is required for your coursework.