Mental model

(see the book: Mental Models).

According to the acknowledgment of the book, it resulted from a workshop on mental models held at the University of California, San Diego in October 1980, that was jointly sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Sloan Foundation.

Mental models are based on a small set of fundamental assumptions (axioms), which distinguish them from other proposed representations in the psychology of reasoning (Byrne and Johnson-Laird, 2009).

A third view is that people rely on mental models, that is, mental representations that correspond to imagined possibilities.

However, mental models can represent what is false, temporarily assumed to be true, for example, in the case of counterfactual conditionals and counterfactual thinking (Byrne, 2005).

According to the mental model theory of reasoning, they construct mental models of the alternative possibilities, as described in Deduction (Johnson-Laird and Byrne, 1991).

Kenneth Craik suggested in 1943 that the mind constructs "small-scale models" of reality that it uses to anticipate events.

In this book he first laid the foundation for the concept of mental models, that the mind forms models of reality and uses them to predict similar future events.

A cognitive map (sometimes called a mental map or mental model) is a type of mental representation which serves an individual to acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday or metaphorical spatial environment.

Philip Johnson-Laird and Ruth M.J. Byrne developed their mental model theory of reasoning which makes the assumption that reasoning depends, not on logical form, but on mental models (Johnson-Laird and Byrne, 1991).

Ongoing research on mental models and reasoning has led the theory to be extended to account for probabilistic inference (e.g., Johnson-Laird, 2006) and counterfactual thinking (Byrne, 2005).

In cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind, a mental model is a representation of something in the mind, but a mental model may also refer to a nonphysical external model of the mind itself.

In the simplification of reality, creating a model can find a sense of reality, seeking to overcome systemic thinking and system dynamics.

Culture influences mental models.

A mental model is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world.

Mental models can help shape behaviour and set an approach to solving problems (similar to a personal algorithm) and doing tasks.

Mental models can help shape behaviour and set an approach to solving problems (similar to a personal algorithm) and doing tasks.

A mental model is a kind of internal symbol or representation of external reality, hypothesized to play a major role in cognition, reasoning and decision-making.

A mental model is a kind of internal symbol or representation of external reality, hypothesized to play a major role in cognition, reasoning and decision-making.

A mental model is a kind of internal symbol or representation of external reality, hypothesized to play a major role in cognition, reasoning and decision-making.

Jay Wright Forrester defined general mental models as:

In psychology, the term mental models is sometimes used to refer to mental representations or mental simulation generally.

Philip Johnson-Laird and Ruth M.J. Byrne developed their mental model theory of reasoning which makes the assumption that reasoning depends, not on logical form, but on mental models (Johnson-Laird and Byrne, 1991). At other times it is used to refer to and to the mental model theory of reasoning developed by Philip Johnson-Laird and Ruth M.J. Byrne.

Philip Johnson-Laird and Ruth M.J. Byrne developed their mental model theory of reasoning which makes the assumption that reasoning depends, not on logical form, but on mental models (Johnson-Laird and Byrne, 1991). At other times it is used to refer to and to the mental model theory of reasoning developed by Philip Johnson-Laird and Ruth M.J. Byrne.

Georges-Henri Luquet in Le dessin enfantin (Children's drawings), published in 1927 by Alcan, Paris, argued that children construct internal models, a view that influenced, among others, child psychologist Jean Piaget.

In the same year, Dedre Gentner and Albert Stevens edited a collection of chapters in a book also titled Mental Models.

In the same year, Dedre Gentner and Albert Stevens edited a collection of chapters in a book also titled Mental Models.