Picture Smart:Spatial Reasoning and Its Role in Cognition

Image intelligence: its role in spatial reasoning and cognition There are many theories about the nature of intelligence. The formal definition of information is "ability to acquire and apply knowledge". Dr. Howard Gardner, Founder of Multiple Intelligence Theory, believes that one aspect or type of intelligence is Spatial Intelligence (1). Spatial intelligence is one of eight types of intelligence. The most general explanation of spatial intelligence is the ability to reconstruct human visual experience and inference shapes, measurements, descriptions, and navigation.

I read a wonderful book by The Jennifer Ackerman, The Genius of Birds, and educate birds' wisdom and awareness thoroughly. Birds seem to have different types of awareness of space, society, technology, and sound. Ackerman writes, "Birds are not talented to solve social problems, they can make the universe smarter." And please forget the derogatory words "bird's brain". With the help of this book, I have a new understanding of all the birds that visit my place or live. They seem to know when a favorite seed or turnip is on the land; woodpecker barely illuminates my dying tree and is looking for food; hawks lean on the back branch looking for squirrel Tits capturing insects, vultures sitting on oak trees once

The word intelligence I am speaking is a general cognitive ability. Almost all trustworthy cognitive measures (such as language tests, spatial tests, and memory tests) are at least moderately relevant. General cognitive abilities are the common point of this examination. A more complex cognitive process, such as more abstract reasoning, is a better indicator of general cognitive performance. Since the IQ test often evaluates a wide range of complicated cognitive processes, their total score is a useful indicator of general cognitive ability. Since the word intelligence has various meanings, it is best to use the phrase general cognitive ability or its symbol g (Jensen, 1987; Jensen & Weng, printing in progress).

Behavior geography is coming from early behavioral research like the concept of Tolman's "cognitive map". More cognitive-oriented behavioral geographers focus on cognitive processes of space inference, decision making, behavior. More behavior - oriented geographers are materialists, they study the role of the basic learning process and how they affect even the landscape pattern and the group 's identity. Nature surrounds our world including all lives (plants, animals, living things, human beings etc.) and physical features. Social construction is the way human beings deal with the world around us. According to Plato's "classical classification theory", humans create categories they see through experience and imagination. Therefore, social constructivism is an expression that enables language and semantics.