Mental model, a representation of reality within the mind of an individual.
Kenneth Craik suggested in 1943 that the mind constructs "small-scale models" of reality that it uses to anticipate events.
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Walter Kintsch and Teun A. van Dijk, using the term situation model (in their book Strategies of Discourse Comprehension, 1983), showed the relevance of mental models for the production and comprehension of discourse.
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The term "mental model" is believed to have originated with Kenneth Craik in his 1943 book The Nature of Explanation.
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