GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ceteris Paribus, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere
12 Sep 2016
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Behaviour: yours and others and why you do what you do. Perception: how you and others view the world, and how these perceptions shape urban environments. Relativism: how we can all witness the same event, but have differing views of it depending on the many cognitive filters through which we view those events. Scale: how we judge size, area, distance in relative and absolute terms, and act upon those decisions. The sensory frontier (e. g. city, flower, bird) Events are perceived or passed through the p-plane. The conceptual frontier (e. g. place, biomass, animal) They are fit into constructs simply turn them into familiar things. Final step is to fit the constructs together into a set of relationships and/or patterns called. Order of experience: event (events and things) perception (as experiences seen through cognitive filters) . Empirical content) concepts (abstract ideas generalized from numerous constructs)
