抄録
In an attempt to examine spatial cognitive processes, 20 adult subjects were asked to explore freely an unfamiliar place and then to report verbally what they had seen in the course of their explorations. There were four experimental sessions in an exploration, during which six map-drawing tasks were given to the subjects. Results showed that the subjects could be classified into two strategy types, the Boundary-dependent type and the Center-dependent type as to their explorative patterns. Typically, the Boundary-dependent subjects went around along the place-boundary at the first sessions, and then explored the inner space, whereas the subjects of the Center-dependent type explored a part of the unfamiliar place at first, went back to the starting points, and then went on to explore another part. The Boundary-dependent subjects appeared to use the available direction cues more than the Center-dependent subjects. The Boundary-dependent subjects may have taken in new informations in relation to reference frame.
