Mental models can help shape behaviour, including approaches to solving problems and performing tasks. In psychology, the term mental models is sometimes used to refer to mental representations or mental simulation generally. The concepts of schema and conceptual models are cognitively adjacent.

Mental models are constructs used in cognitive psychology that serve as a medium for mental representation and manipulation of mental objects to solve problems. In the context of language processing, mental models refer to the knowledge an individual has …

The mental model theory of reasoning was developed by Philip Johnson-Laird and Ruth M.J. Byrne (Johnson-Laird and Byrne, 1991). It has been applied to the main domains of deductive inference including relational inferences such as spatial and temporal deductions; propositional inferences, such as conditional, disjunctive and negation deductions ...

Mental models are cognitive blueprints that can fundamentally change how you interact with and understand the world. A mental model is essentially a framework for understanding how things work. It’s your internal map for interpreting the world, including concepts, relationships, and …

2015年8月17日 · The mental model theory explains induction, deduction and abduction. Deductions are inferences that either maintain or throw away information. Inductions are inferences that increase information and abduction is a special case of induction that that also introduces new ideas to explain something.

The theory of mental models explains how people reason deductively, how they infer probabilities, how they make decisions, and how they reason recursively about about other people’s reasoning. The model theory explains: why some inferences are easy and other inferences are difficult; why people take longer to make some inferences than others;

Th e immediate precursor to the modern theory of mental models is a hypothesis due to the pre-scient psychologist and physiologist, Kenneth Craik (1943). What he wrote conveys the essence of the modern theory:

2010年9月2日 · We construct mental models of each dis-tinct possibility and derive a conclusion from them. The theory predicts systematic errors in our reasoning, and the evidence cor-roborates this prediction. Yet, our ability to use counterexamples to refute invalid inferences provides a foundation for rationality.

2020年1月1日 · In this paper, the usefulness of mental model theory as a model for the analysis of visuals and multimodal discourse was promoted. The discussion included examples of different multimodal texts, such as memes and cartoons.

1998年12月31日 · In applied work, mental models allow operators to think about causal structures and functions in systems they must control, and whose faults they must manage. It is suggested that lattice theory...