Hitesh's friends asked him to meet them for dinner, but he has never been to the restaurant they name. He asks where the restaurant is located and is told that it sits at the corner of Main Avenue and State Street. Though he has never been to the corner of Main and State, he knows where both roads are and is able to figure out where the restaurant is. He is using

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Hitesh is using a cognitive map, which is a mental representation of the layout of one's environment. Since he knows where both Main Avenue and State Street are, he can mentally visualize their intersection and locate the restaurant without having been there before.

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