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IntroductionOne common type of learning involves constructing a plan for finding your way from one location to another.Some researchers believe that this plan is nothing more than a series of conditioned associations that have been chained together. For example, you may visualize your route from home to school as a string of left and right turns in a specific sequence. Other researchers claim that we find our way because we have formed a complex directional plan which they call a cognitive map of our route. They claim this cognitive map is more than a set of simple associations because travelers whose familiar route is blocked can often reach their goal by taking other streets, using a quite different sequence of turns. |