A mental map is a map of the environment as portrayed by the mind of an individual which reflecting the knowledge and prejudices of that individual. This mental map reflects the person's perceptions of, and preferences for, different places and is the result of the way in which an individual acquires, classifies, stores, retrieves, and decodes information about locations. Mental maps may also include images of locations. This map represents a mental map because it mentally describes a part of a city as related to location of streets, buildings, rivers, and states.
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