Mental Models

, by Gentner, Dedre; Stevens, Albert L.; Gentner, Debre

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ISBN: 9780898592429 | 0898592429
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/1/1983

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Approach is interdisciplinary, with chapters from cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, & cognitive anthropology. Focuses on specifying & studying people's internal models of physical phenomena.

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Introduction	p. 1
References	p. 6
Acknowledgment	p. 6
Some Observations on Mental Models	p. 7
Acknowledgment	p. 14
References	p. 14
Phenomenology and the Evolution of Intuition	p. 15
References	p. 33
Acknowledgment	p. 33
Surrogates and Mappings: Two Kinds of Conceptual Models for Interactive Devices	p. 35
References	p. 52
Introduction	p. 53
Qualitative Reasoning About Space and Motion	p. 53
References	p. 72
The Role of Problem Representation in Physics	p. 75
Acknowledgment	p. 97
References	p. 97
Flowing Waters Or Teeming Crowds: Mental Models of Electricity	p. 99
References	p. 127
Introduction	p. 131
Human Reasoning About A Simple Physical System	p. 131
Conclusions	p. 152
Questions	p. 153
References	p. 153
Acknowledgment	p. 153
Assumptions and Ambiguities in Mechanistic Mental Models	p. 155
Introduction	p. 155
Acknowledgments	p. 189
References	p. 190
Understanding Micronesian Navigation	p. 191
Acknowledgment	p. 224
References	p. 225
Conceptual Entities	p. 227
Acknowledgment	p. 251
References	p. 251
Using the Method of Fibres in Mecho to Calculate Radii of Gyration	p. 253
Conclusion	p. 264
Acknowledgments	p. 265
References	p. 266
When Heat and Temperature Were One	p. 267
References	p. 296
Naive Theories of Motion	p. 299
References	p. 322
Acknowledgments	p. 322
A Conceptual Model Discussed by Galileo and Used Intuitively by Physics Students	p. 325
References	p. 338
	p. 340
Author Index	p. 341
Subject Index	p. 345
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