ARCHITECTURE OF THOUGHT - Paradigms of cognitive psychology
Ceausu, Felicia In modeling the reality, we rely on the knowledge we have, no matter whether it is real or imaginary, naïve or sophisticated, our mental models are mostly made up of fragmentary information based on a partial understanding of what is happening and a naïve psychology postulating causes, mechanisms and relationships where, in fact, there is none of them. The mental model is made up in order to understand an aspect of the outside world. In the pr...