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Mental models

Author: Dedre Gentner; Albert L Stevens
Publisher: Hillsdale, N.J. : Erlbaum, 1983.
Series: Cognitive science (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dedre Gentner; Albert L Stevens
ISBN: 0898592429 9780898592429
OCLC Number: 9081085
Description: viii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Albert L. Stevens and Dedre Gentner --
Some observations on mental models / Donald A. Norman --
Phenomenology and the evolution of intuition / Andrea A. diSessa --
Surrogates and mappings : two kinds of conceptual models for interactive devices / Ricahrd M. Young --
Qualitative reasoning about space and motion / Kenneth D. Forbus --
The role of problem representation in physics / Jill H. Larkin --
Flowing waters or teeming crowds : mental models of electricity / Dedre Gentner and Donald R. Gentner --
Human reasoning about a simple physical system --
Michael D. Williams, James D. Hollan, Albert L. Stevens --
Assumptions and ambiguities in mechanistic mental models / Johan de Kleer and John Seely Brown --
Understanding Micronesian navigation / Edwin Hutchins --
Conceptual entities / James G. Greeno --
Using the method of fibres in mecho to calculate radii of gyration / Alan Bundy and Lawrence Byrd --
When heat and temperature were one / Marianne Wiser and Susan Carey --
Naive theories of motion / Michael McCloskey --
A conceptual model discussed by Galileo and used intuitively by physics students / John Clement.
Series Title: Cognitive science (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
Responsibility: edited by Dedre Gentner, Albert L. Stevens.
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by garyperlman (WorldCat user on 2006-12-06)

Introduction
+ Stevens, Albert L.
+ Gentner, Dedre
Some observations on mental models
+ Norman, Donald A.
Phenomenology and the evolution of intuition
+ diSessa, Andrea A.
Surrogates and mappings : two kinds of conceptual models for interactive devices
+ Young, Richard M.
Qualitative reasoning about space and motion
+ Forbus, Kenneth D.
The role of problem representation in physics
+ Larkin, Jill H.
Flowing waters or teeming crowds : mental models of electricity
+ Gentner, Dedre
+ Gentner, Donald R.
Human reasoning about a simple physical system
+ Williams, Michael D.
+ Hollan, James D.
+ Stevens, Albert L.
Assumptions and ambiguities in mechanistic mental models
+ de Kleer, Johan
+ Brown, John Seely
Understanding Micronesian navigation
+ Hutchins, Edwin
Conceptual entities
+ Greeno, James G.
Using the method of fibres in mecho to calculate radii of gyration
+ Bundy, Alan
+ Byrd, Lawrence
When heat and temperature were one
+ Wiser, Marianne
+ Carey, Susan
Naive theories of motion
+ McCloskey, Michael
A conceptual model discussed by Galileo and used intuitively by physics students
+ Clement, John

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