English Explanatory Dictionary

mental model

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone's understanding of how a system works.

Word forms

mental model mental models

Etymology

Introduced by Scottish philosopher Kenneth Craik in The Nature of Explanation (1943).

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