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What is Mental Model

Chapter 3
Optimizing Higher Education Learning Through Activities and Assessments
A representation of an object or a system in the real world.
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Implications of Cognitive Theories for Optimizing Higher Education Learning
Erol Ozcelik (Cankaya University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4036-7.ch003
Abstract
Cognitive theories have the potential to provide suggestions to design more effective learning environments for higher education. The goal of this chapter is to review cognitive theories and principles based on empirical findings and suggest implications for practice. Working memory theory, distributed cognition theory, dual-process theory, modulatory emotional consolidation theory, mental model theory, metacognitive theory, transfer appropriate processing principle, generation effect, testing effect, and spacing effect are presented in the current study. Based on these theoretical frameworks, novel recommendations for educational practice are suggested.
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Chapter 225
Open Student Models
A mental recreation of the states of the world reproduced cognitively in order to offer itself as a basis for reasoning.
Published in Chapter: Open Student Models; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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Chapter 92
Mental Models
Internal representations constructed on the spot when required by demands of an external task or by a self-generated stimulus. It enables activation of relevant schemata, and allows new knowledge to be integrated. It specifies causal actions among concepts that take place within it, and it can be interacted with in the mind.
Published in Chapter: Mental Models; From: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
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Chapter 26
Improving Stroke-Based Input of Chinese Characters
A mental model is the users’ internal representation of how a system works.
Published in Chapter: Improving Stroke-Based Input of Chinese Characters; From: Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology
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Developing an “App-titude” for Cooking: Helping Adults Promote Positive Cooking Skills With Children via Mobile Web-Based Accessible Media
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Chapter 72
Human-Computer Interaction: A Human Resources Perspective
In the context of HCI, the models that users and designers make of the operation of a user interface.
Published in Chapter: Human-Computer Interaction: A Human Resources Perspective; From: Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM
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Chapter 129
System Dynamics Based Learning Environments
The concepts and constructs about real work things we have in our heads are called mental model. For instance, people do not keep a “car” in their heads, but a mental model of it.
Published in Chapter: System Dynamics Based Learning Environments; From: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
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Chapter 113
Measuring Shared Mental Models in Unmanned Aircraft Systems
A network of knowledge content, as well as the relationships among the content.
Published in Chapter: Measuring Shared Mental Models in Unmanned Aircraft Systems; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Chapter 9
Digital Media Affecting Society: Instruction and Learning
Active and dynamic representations of knowledge that visualize the invisible by creating analogies between what is known and not known.
Published in Chapter: Digital Media Affecting Society: Instruction and Learning; From: Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media
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Chapter 3
Cooking with “App-titude”: Suggestions to Help Educators Promote Positive Kitchen Skills with Preschool and Elementary School Students
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Chapter 18
The Impact of Human Behavior on Cyber Security
Explanation of a person’s thought process about how something works.
Published in Chapter: The Impact of Human Behavior on Cyber Security; From: Handbook of Research on Civil Society and National Security in the Era of Cyber Warfare
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Chapter 581
System Dynamics Based Technology for Decision Support
A mental model is the collection of concepts and relationships about the image of real world things we carry in our heads. For example, one does not have a house or a city or a gadget in his/her head but a mental model about these items.
Published in Chapter: System Dynamics Based Technology for Decision Support; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Optimizing Supply Chains Through System Dynamics Modelling and Simulation: Lessons From the Navy
Mental models represent the relationships and assumptions about a system held in a person’s mind.
Published in Chapter: Optimizing Supply Chains Through System Dynamics Modelling and Simulation: Lessons From the Navy; From: Computational Thinking for Problem Solving and Managerial Mindset Training
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Chapter 110
Increasing Visibility through Process Mining
A mental model is defined as a representation of a system or environment based on experience.
Published in Chapter: Increasing Visibility through Process Mining; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 45
System Dynamics to Understand Public Information Technology
Mental models are representations of reality built in people’s minds. These models are based on arrangements of assumptions, judgments, and values. A main weakness of mental models is that people’s assumptions and judgments change over time and are applied in inconsistent ways when building explanations of the world.
Published in Chapter: System Dynamics to Understand Public Information Technology; From: Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology
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Chapter 4
Time of Our Lives: Reproducing Inequality in a Culture of Compulsory Progress
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Chapter 33
A Human Factors View of the Digital Divide
Organization of data, functions, tasks, roles and people in groups at work or play (as stated in Lee, Y.S. et al, 2006, p. 308).
Published in Chapter: A Human Factors View of the Digital Divide; From: Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society
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Chapter 109
Ergonomic Design of a Driver Training Simulator for Rural India
It is the image in our brain of what we see in real life. This image persists even after a long time.
Published in Chapter: Ergonomic Design of a Driver Training Simulator for Rural India; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 298
Task-Oriented Information Organization and Retrieval in Online Learning
A user’s understanding of concepts and procedures for selecting goals and executing actions (Carroll & Olson, 1988).
Published in Chapter: Task-Oriented Information Organization and Retrieval in Online Learning; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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Chapter 44
Customizing Multimedia with Multi-Trees
Representations of real or imaginary structure in the human mind enabling orientation as well as goal orientated actions and movements.
Published in Chapter: Customizing Multimedia with Multi-Trees; From: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
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