COGNITIVE MAP

  COGNITIVE MAPPING

                   Definition: A cognitive map is any visual representation of a person’s (or a group’s) mental model for a given process or concept. Cognitive maps are the umbrella term for all visual representations of mental models. All mapping techniques described in this article are instances of cognitive maps. Cognitive maps have no visual rules that they need to obey: there is no restriction on how the concepts and the relationships between them are visually represented.

PREPARATION

Before preparing a cognitive map we should be familiar with the unit and the concept related to it. We have to prepare a single unit into a map format and thus, every small details of the unit is important. There is main ideas, broad ideas and specific ideas in a cognitive map. So the detailed analysis of the unit is appropriate before preparing a cognitive map. A few open source mapping softwares are, Compendium, Freeplane, Wisemapping, Xmind, CMAP, VUE, and FREEMIND. Other concept mapping softwares includes, MindMeister, Ayoa, MindGenius, Milanote, Miro, Microsoft Visio, SmartDraw, Lucidchart, Coggle and Visme.

 I used mindomo app for concept mapping. Mindomo comes with many features to make your mind mapping journey as easy and pleasant as possible.  My first cognitive map is from plus one physics, " Waves" . And the second cognitive map is from plus two  chemistry  "Solid State ".