You have been to the grocery store with your parents many times on weekly shopping trips, but never really paid a lot of attention to the location of specific items.Today your father asked you to go get a bag of sugar, and you knew immediately how to get to the aisle with baking products.This internal representation the layout of the store is called a(n)________.
A)cognitive schema
B)primary reinforcer
C)cognitive map
D)insight solution

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A cognitive map is an internal representation of the spatial relationships between objects in an individual's environment, such as the layout of a grocery store, which allows a person to navigate to a specific item like a bag of sugar without having previously paid conscious attention to its location.

You Have Been to the Grocery Store with Your Parents