George is traveling to visit his friend ryan in a neighboring town but has to take a detour due to road construction. at first george feels lost, but then he notices a sign for madison street and immediately knows where he is and how to navigate to ryan’s house. in this situation, george has reached ryan’s by

a cognitive map.                                                    

Explanation:

Cognitive map: In psychology, the term cognitive map is also referred to as mental model or mental map, and is defined as a form of a mental representation that helps a person to gain, recall, code, store, and decode a particular information related to the relative attributes and locations of specific phenomena in his or her metaphorical or day-to-day spatial environment. It is considered as a small part in an individual's spatial cognition.

In the question above, considering the given situation George has reached Ryan’s by using a cognitive map.

answer; inductive techniques;