Exam 7: Human Interaction

Because it is such a recent phenomenon,the telecommunications revolution has had limited effect on spatial interaction patterns.

What is psychological distance? Illustrate with an example.

Chain migration involves the place transition from,for example,rural to central city residence through a series of less extreme locational changes,from farm to small town to suburb,and finally to the major central city itself.

The term diffusion refers to a pattern of

Maps of residential preferences created by people from different parts of Canada shared

The spread of Wal-Mart in the United States is an example of

Think of your own experience with a city or metropolitan area (other than the one in which you live).Discuss the ways in which you may have developed a false perception and distorted mental map of that city or metropolitan area.

What push and pull factors were most important in shaping the migration patterns within the United States during the 1990s?

Human interaction does NOT include

We form place opinions and perceptions only on the basis of personal experience.

If a trend spreads first among the largest cities and only later appears in the smaller towns in between the large cities,it is called

The graph of the cumulative number of adopters of an innovation versus time resembles

The telecommunications revolution promotes space-time and space-cost convergence.

Which one of the following is a push factor?