Planning During Map Learning

The Global Strategies of High and Low Visual-Spatial Individuals

Cathleen Stasz

Published 1980

An investigation of the relationship between people's visual-spatial ability and their global strategies for learning maps. Twenty-five subjects differing in spatial restructuring and visual memory abilities provided verbal protocols while attempting to learn maps. These protocols suggested a number of strategies that subjects used to approach the learning problem. Three strategies structured the learning task of successful map learners by providing algorithms for systematically focusing attention on various subsets of map information. Unsuccessful map learners adopted other or no strategies. Subjects high in visual-spatial ability tended to adopt these attention-focusing strategies, while most low-ability subjects used no systematic strategy.

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Stasz, Cathleen, Planning During Map Learning: The Global Strategies of High and Low Visual-Spatial Individuals. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1980. https://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N1594.html.
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