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3 unusual facts about Kenneth Craik


Experimental psychology

In Europe this was less the case, as European psychology was influenced by psychologists such as Sir Frederic Bartlett, Kenneth Craik, W.E. Hick and Donald Broadbent, who focused on topics such as thinking, memory and attention.

Mental model

Kenneth Craik suggested in 1943 that the mind constructs "small-scale models" of reality that it uses to anticipate events.

The term "mental model" is believed to have originated with Kenneth Craik in his 1943 book The Nature of Explanation.



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