"Mental Model is a term that is used to explain an individual’s personal thought processes about how the world works."
Beliefs, ideas, images and verbal descriptions that we consciously or unconsciously form from our experiences. Basically it's what makes the shape of our mind, it changes our opinion, our way of seeing things and many other stuff.
An example:
If the organism carries a ""small-scale model"" of external reality and of its own possible actions within its head, it is able to try out various alternatives, conclude which is the best of them, react to future situations before they arise, utilize the knowledge of the past events in dealing with the present and future, and in every way to react in a much fuller, safer, and more competent manner to the emergencies which face it.
- Kenneth Craik, a Scottish psychologist, 1943
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