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Critically examine the significance of Behavioural Approach in the development of human geography.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

The behavioural approach is the psychological turn in human geography of the 1960s–70s, which held that spatial patterns cannot be explained by the objective environment at all, but only through the perceived environment — the cognitive image on the basis of which real decision-makers actually act.

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  • Revolt Against Economic Man: Wolpert, Simon and the Satisficer
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