A Graphical System for Understanding the Relationship between Concepts. A Graphical System for Understanding the Relationship between Concepts. The concepts, and sometimes the links, are labeled on the concept map. The concepts and the links may be categorized, and the concept map may show temporal or causal relationships between concepts.
Structural knowledge provides the conceptual basis for why.
Structural knowledge is most often depicted in terms of some sort of concept map that visually describes the relationships between ideas in a knowledge domain. Representing knowledge in the visual format of a concept map allows one to gain an overview of a domain of knowledge. Because the nodes contain only a keyword or a short sentence, more interpretation is required of the reader, but this may be positive. As one puts ideas down on paper without criticism, the ideas become clearer and the mind becomes free to receive new ideas. These new ideas may be linked to ideas already on the paper, and they may also trigger new associations leading to new ideas.