This concept map visually represents the participant's knowledge about cooking.

From the map we can see that there are three main subtypes under the general term "cooking", namely, types of recipes, methods of cooking and tools used for cooking. By observing the map it is not difficult for us to see that among these three subtypes, recipes occupy the biggest portion and tools the fewest. From this we can conlude that the participant is more familiar, or has more prior knowledge structured around different types of recipes in terms of cooking. And within the recipe subtype, Indian, Mexican and American are the most familiar recipes to him, as the structures for these types are more complicated than for the Chinese's.

By this visual representation with symbols, we can quickly and easily get a holistic understanding about the participant's mental development in this specific domain. Since different subtypes are marked with different colors, it is very clear that his knowledge about the tools are not so developed as about recipes and methods for cooking. Indeed, during his doing of this map, he struggled with the names of the tools. Thus the brainstorming in this part is also much shorter than the other two parts.

The process of producing this map is also a process that the participant organizes his thought and knowledge in the domain of cooking, since he needs to pay attention to the relations between concepts, say, which concept is linked to which and with a certain term, what can be generated from it and what can be next to it on the same level.

Also in the process of making this map, the participant was reminded of a lot of words or experiences about cooking inspired by drawing the circles and writing words. Here the map serves as a learning enhancement by which the participant can learning or relearn some knowledge and enhance it.

In all, concept map is an easy and clear way of representing information structure in a person's mind for others to see visually and this process is also beneficial to the participant who can organize one's thought and ideas and enhance the knowledge at the same time.