EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF MENTAL MAPS
EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF MENTAL MAPS

Summary/Abstract: Thinking is the superior cognitive process of extracting the essential, logical and necessary features with the help of some abstract-formal operations for understanding, explaining and predicting some causal relations of reality and creating some concepts, notions, theories, cognitive systems as mental models of reality. Cognitive processing has a deep character, has a high degree of mental autonomy, a maximum level of selectivity in relation with the features of the world and life. Categorization represents the process of grouping on classes of the information avalanche we enter into contact every day. This information is grouped on classes, categories after certain criteria. Thinking mapping are used in learning activites and helps to form very different representations and then scientific concepts, to classify and compare this concepts, in describing the attributes of various notions and development of various reasoning such as spatial reasoning or cause-effect reasoning. The purpose of this study is to identify, categorize and highlight the role of thinking maps in the formation of cognitive skills in school activity. From the methodological standpoint, in the present study I used a more analytical approach to obtain a definition and classification of mental maps and identify advantages and disadvantages of their use. Conclusions and Recommendations: a good Thinking Map can be effective mnemonics - remembering the shape and structure of a Thinking Map can give it the cues you need to remember the information within it. As such, they engage much more of our brain in the process of assimilating and connecting information than conventional notes do.

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