A mental model is an internal representation (model) of external reality: that is, a way of representing reality within one's mind. Such models are hypothesized...

Mental Models is a book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., in 1983 ISBN 0-89859-242-9. It was edited by Dedre Gentner and Albert L. Stevens...

their own ideas on what is true. Conceptual models range in type from the more concrete, such as the mental image of a familiar physical object, to the...

The mental model theory of reasoning was developed by Philip Johnson-Laird and Ruth M.J. Byrne (Johnson-Laird and Byrne, 1991). It has been applied to...

developed the taxonomy of mental disorders which has dominated the field for nearly 80 years. Later, the proposed disease model of abnormality was subjected...

The recovery model, recovery approach or psychological recovery is an approach to mental disorder or substance dependence that emphasizes and supports...

A mental representation (or cognitive representation), in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, is a hypothetical...

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that...

general to be mental images. Today, it is very widely believed that much imagery functions as mental representations (or mental models), playing an important...

The trauma model of mental disorders, or trauma model of psychopathology, emphasises the effects of physical, sexual and psychological trauma as key causal...