On Looking into the Black Box¶
Rouse, W., & Morris, N. (1986). On Looking into the Black Box: Prospects and Limits in the Search for Mental Models. Psychological Bulletin, 100(3), 349-363.
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- Mental Model
- Target domain. A specifiable real-world (or hypothetical) domain the model is about — a device, an organization, a physical system, a social situation. Entities and relations. The model contains representations of salient components, their properties, and the relations (causal, spatial, temporal, logical) that connect them. Simulation support. The model supports the model-running operation: the reasoner can imagine initial conditions, apply the model's rules, and arrive at predicted outcomes or explanations without exhaustive external testing. Structural, not propositional only. Mental models are structured representations with topology and relations, distinct from mere lists of facts; the structure carries inferential content. Held by a cognizer. A specific person (or shared by a group as "team mental model") holds the model; it is cognitive rather than external (an external diagram is a model, but the mental model is the internalized form). Revisable.
This sourceAnalysis of mental model construction and elicitation methods in system operators and decision-makers.
- Target domain. A specifiable real-world (or hypothetical) domain the model is about — a device, an organization, a physical system, a social situation. Entities and relations. The model contains representations of salient components, their properties, and the relations (causal, spatial, temporal, logical) that connect them. Simulation support. The model supports the model-running operation: the reasoner can imagine initial conditions, apply the model's rules, and arrive at predicted outcomes or explanations without exhaustive external testing. Structural, not propositional only. Mental models are structured representations with topology and relations, distinct from mere lists of facts; the structure carries inferential content. Held by a cognizer. A specific person (or shared by a group as "team mental model") holds the model; it is cognitive rather than external (an external diagram is a model, but the mental model is the internalized form). Revisable.
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