目前人们对于地理形象思维的培养还存在着不同的认识,一是由于形象思维具有形象性、直觉性、整体性、概括性等特征,在传统心理学中,一直把形象思维归于认识的初级阶段——感性认识.认为形象思维一定要过渡的抽象思维.这些观点反映到理论方面,表现为对地理形象思维的内涵、方法、能力目标体系,以及两种思维结合的途径等都不是非常清楚.另一是认为表象就是形象思维,反映到教学中,表现为形象思维 At present, people have different understandings on the cultivation of the thinking of geographical images. Firstly, in the traditional psychology, the thinking of the images has been attributed to the primary stage of cognition because of its characteristics of image, intuition, integrity and generalization. - Perceptual knowledge, think that the thinking of the image must be the abstract thinking of the transition, these views are reflected in the theory, the performance of the thinking of the geographical image of the connotation, methods, ability to target system, and the combination of two ways of thinking are not very clear. The other is that representation is the image of thinking, reflected in the teaching, the performance of the image of thinking