Behavioral geography

Behavioral geography is an approach to human geography that examines human behavior using a disaggregate approach. Behavioral geographers focus on a cognitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, decision making, in addition to behavior. In addition, behavioral geography is an ideology/approach in human geography that makes ownership of the methods and assumptions of behaviorism to introducing the cognitive processes involved in an individual's perception of or response and reaction to their environment.

Behavioral geography is that branch of human science, which deals with the analyse of cognitive processes with its response to its environment, through behaviorism.

Issues

Because of the hit it is often assumed to progress to its roots in behaviorism. While some behavioral geographers clearly realize roots in behaviorism due to the emphasis on cognition, near can be seen as cognitively oriented. Indeed, it seems that behaviorism interest is more recent and growing. This is especially true in the area of human landscaping.

Behavioral geography draws from early behaviorist workings such(a) as Tolman's opinion of "cognitive maps". More cognitively oriented, behavioral geographers focus on the cognitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, decision making, and behavior. More behaviorally oriented geographers are materialists and look at the role of basic learning processes and how they influence the landscape patterns or even companies identity.

The cognitive processes include environmental perception and cognition, wayfinding, the construction of cognitive maps, place attachment, the developing of attitudes approximately space and place, decisions and behavior based on imperfect cognition of one's environs, and numerous other topics.

The approach adopted in behavioral geography is closely related to that of psychology, but draws on research findings from a multitude of other disciplines including economics, sociology, anthropology, transportation planning, and many others.