Mental Models

A mental model is generally: --founded on hardly quantifiable, impugnable, obscure, or incomplete facts --flexible – is considerably variable in positive as well as in negative sense --effects as information filter[disambiguation needed] – causes selective perception, perception of only selected parts of information --compared with the complexities surrounding the world, it is very limited, and even when the scientific model is extensive and in accordance with a certain reality in the derivation of logical consequences of it. It must take into account such restrictions on working memory; i.e., well-known rules on the maximum number of elements that people are suddenly able to remember, gestaltismus or failure of the principles of logic, etc. --sources of information, which one cannot find anywhere else, are available at any time and can be used. Mental models are a fundamental way to understand organizational learning. Mental models are "deeply held images of thinking and acting." Mental models are so basic to understanding of the world that people are hardly conscious of them. From: Wikipedia/Mental Model