Running shared mental models as a distributed cognitive process.(team...

British Journal of Psychology;  November 1, 2000 ;   Banks, Adrian P. Millward, Lynne J.;   787 words ...Adrian P. Banks [*] Shared mental models theory normally takes the individual...theoretical framework for studying shared mental models in which the model is considered to...predicted which describes how shared mental models are run. A team reasoning task requiring...

I think, therefore I am resistant to change

Journal of Staff Development;  January 1, 2003 ;   Duffy, Francis M;   787 words ......and Rosalie Torres (1999) describe mental models as a set of personal opinions, perceptions...manifested in opinions we hold" (p. 66). Mental models are powerful because they frame and...upon their world. However, not all mental models are functional or correct. Change requires...

The Essence of Safety: What's in your mental model?

Professional Safety;  November 1, 2006 ;   Montante, William M;   787 words ......to realign individual and corporate mental models regarding safety, and to close that...it is and what others think it is. Mental Models: At the Root Variations in perceptions...in large part, from our reliance on mental models. These are constructs of reality shaped...

Teacher Education Students' Reflections on How Problem-Based Learning Has...

The Teacher Educator;  April 1, 2007 ;   Askell-Williams, Helen; Murray-Harvey, Rosalind; Lawson, Michael J;   787 words ...Abstract Students develop robust mental models of teaching and learning during their...students' reflections on changes in their mental models following their experiences in a problem-bas...evidence that students do report changing mental models in areas such as (a) the value of case...

Parables of technological literacy

Journal of Engineering Technology;  October 1, 2000 ;   Hansen, John W;   787 words ......technologically literate person because cur mental models of technological literacy are inadequate...Discipline Peter Senge describes mental models and discusses how these models influence our actions.1 Mental models help us organize and integrate...

How we learn - and how to make learning more meaningful

Journal of Staff Development;  October 1, 2003 ;   Cary, Donja;   527 words ......discussed. The authors stress changing mental models first within oneself and then with a group. Mental models are personal theories that drive us...authors first explain the importance of mental models in professional development work...

LEADERSHIP METAPHORS ARE GREAT, BUT WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THEM?

Journal of Staff Development;  October 1, 2006 ;   Duffy, Francis M;   685 words ......readers. Much is written in the literature on organizational and individual performance about mental models. Mental models drive performance. Mental models often present themselves in the form of metaphor. Yet Cherry and Speigel don't mention...

Applying Mental Models to Qualitative Risk Assessment at the Tar Creek...

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment;  October 1, 2006 ;   Vásquez, Astrid P; Regens, James L; Gunter, James T;   787 words ......qualitative assessment of the site that uses mental models identifies other potential contaminants...may require further investigation. Mental models structure judgments about hazards and...required. A qualitative assessment using mental models can provide insights into other ...

SHARED MENTAL MODELS, CATCH-UP DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY-MAKING: THE...

Eastern Economic Journal;  July 1, 2006 ;   Zweynert, Joachim;   787 words ......and Douglass C. North call "shared mental models" [1994]. According to their definition, mental models are "internal representations that...be seen as "the shared framework of mental models that groups of individuals possess...

Mental models of elementary and middle school students in analyzing simple...

School Science and Mathematics;  January 1, 2007 ;   Jabot, Michael Henry, David;   787 words ......The items were used to explore the mental models that grade 3-8 students use in explaining...bulb circuits. Consistency of applying mental models in different, but equivalent, circuits...direction was categorized into one of two mental models: (1) bidirectional and (2) ...

Mental models and lifelong learning

Innovations in Education and Training International;  November 1, 1998 ;   Barker, Philip; van Schaik, Paul; Hudson, Spencer;   787 words ...SUMMARY The development of mental models is the underlying `driving...and subsequent adaptation of mental models takes place throughout a human...richness' of an individual's mental models usually increases with his...

Preferred mental models in reasoning about spatial relations

Memory & Cognition;  December 1, 2007 ;   Jahn, Georg; Knauff, Markus; Johnson-Laird, P N;   787 words ...The theory of mental models postulates that individuals infer...mental model of the layout, but real mental models contain, not words in English...We use such diagrams to denote mental models throughout the present article...

Recipes for adult and student learning contain similar ingredients

Journal of Staff Development;  January 1, 2003 ;   Sparks, Dennis;   420 words ......important point in his discussion of mental models, which he describes as a set of personal...world that are thought of as "truths." "Mental models are powerful," he says, "because they...change their personal and organizational mental models is a key step in creating and ...

Enter a forest of ideas to learn how people think

Journal of Staff Development;  July 1, 2005 ;   Duffy, Francis M;   787 words ......Collectively, these thoughts and feelings are called mental models. An important goal for staff development is changing unhelpful or dysfunctional mental models. To change mental models is, in author Howard Gardner's language...

Establishing important framework.

Supervision;  January 1, 2006 ;   Smith, Michael E.;   787 words ......form of collective assumptions, or mental models that are unquestionably accepted as...are not easily discerned. The shared mental models that rest at the fundament of our cultural...Thus, we can correctly assume our mental models will not accurately reflect the reality...