mental model
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone's understanding of how a system works.
Example Sentences
- "My mental model, however, extends over multiple time periods. In time period one, you import a large number of guest workers who impose adjustment costs on their neighbors, including other immigrants with whom they compete for resources."
- "[…] who argue that we still have biologically fixed Stone Age minds constituted by mental models evolved to solve problems of Pleistocene environments, principally those of the African savanna of three million years ago."
- "We are the aggregation of how all our thoughts, feelings and experiences connect. This gestalt forms a perspective of the world as we see it. It's kind of like a miniature version of the world in our heads—a “mental model” if you will."
- "Prior to the use of an automated system, a driver's initial mental model is constructed based on a variety of information sources, which may include a vehicle owner's manual, perceptions of other related technologies, word-of-mouth, marketing information, etc."