AP Human Geography Chapter 3.2 Vocab

Attitude

Belief and feeling about places, people, or events

Awareness Space

Locations or places about which an individual has knowledge even without visiting all of them, includes activity space and additional areas newly encountered or about which one acquires information

Migration

The permanent (or relatively permanent) relocation of an individual or group to a new place of residence.

Mobility

General term for all types of human movement through space and time, including temporary travel and migration

Time Geography

The study of temporal and spatial properties of human activity, particularly temporary travel

Temporary Travel

Short-term mobility, such as journeys to stores, workplaces, school, entertainment locales, or vacation destinations, in which people intend to return home at the end of the day or soon thereafter.

Personal Space

an invisible, usually irregular area around a person into which they do not willingly admit others. The sense (and extent) of personal space is a situational and cultural variable

Territoriality

An individual or group attempt to identify and establish control over a clearly defined territory considered partially or wholly an exclusive domain; the behavior associated with the defense of the home territory

Activity Space

The area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity (not unusual exceptions)

Behavior

Coordinated and goal-directed action by people or institutions

Space Time Prism

a diagram of the volume of space and the length of time within which our activities are confined by constraints of our bodily needs (eating, resting) and the means of mobility at our command

Cognition

Knowledge and beliefs about something, and the thinking and memory processes that create and modify them; it varies somewhat across individual people and cultural groups

Behavioral Approach

A way of doing human geography that focuses on a disaggregate (individual) level of analysis, appreciating the role of cognition and emotion in determining human actions