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In Mexico there is a very common say: El que no transa, no avanza, which translated to English is the title of this discussion
I would like to know if this type or mental model exists in you country or into the organization you are working at.
I am interested, in finding ways to eradicate corruption en my country Mexico
Thanks in advance, for sharing your thoughts and ideas
Do you know if the FCMWizard software still works? I can't find it.
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Cognitive strategies are only helpful if learners possess good mental models of the domain. There is thus a reciprocal relationship between cognitive strategies and mental models (Merriënboer, & Kirschner, 2017). Having said that, I believe that coping strategies are not dependent on the existence of any mental model. They can be adopted/used/undertaken without relying on sound mental models.
I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on this matter.
Reference:
Van Merriënboer, J. J., & Kirschner, P. A. (2017). Ten steps to complex learning: A systematic approach to four-component instructional design. Routledge.
Almost all of us are familiar with mental modelling, conceptual modelling, metacognition and formative assessment in education. My idea is how to create, review, evaluate, and reconstruct students' mental or conceptual models using formative assessment, and metacognitive skills?
Dear all, I am trying to calculate a similarity score of a Team Mental Model using the UCINET software. I have successfully imported an excel file with all the team members' individual matrices representing the individual mental models. If I put this file as Input dataset within the Similarities/Dissimilarities command and try to calculate the Pearson correlation, it will give me a Cronbachs Alpha above 1. Has someone experience with calculating Team Mental Models with UCINET and can help? Thanks in advance!
I’m studying the sharedness of mental models on teams, but I’d like to avoid using any additional software (Pathfinder) and would prefer to remain within R for my data entry and analysis. Has anyone seen a package on GitHub or elsewhere that can carry this out? It would use the Minkowski distance function plus triangulate each node. The only similar option I’ve seen has been PathfindR, which is designed for gene mapping.
Dear researcher,
There is many type of models such as Physical model, mathematical model, mental model, structural model and so on . I am interested to know what is the explanation of generic term " Model"?
I suspect that mental models influence expectations and that expectations influence perceptions and cognitions. Therefore, I wonder if you are exploring this potential influence.
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Senge (1994) posits that the learning organization includes Personal Mastery, Shared Vision, Team Learning, Mental Models and Systems Thinking. Individualized Education Plan consists of a team of school teachers, administrators, psychologists, social workers, and parent teams (Guardians, Parents, Parent Educator, Grandparents, etc). I am seeking to investigate whether There is a strong correlation between a learning organization as constructed by Senge (1994), and successful Individualized Education Plans.
Hi, design research and cognitive science colleagues. I'm looking for theories/frameworks/writings about how we learn about the physical world and how we transfer that knowledge to very unfamiliar situations. So for example, we learn that hollow things like balls and tupperware containers float, and we use that knowledge to use a refrigerator as a life raft during a flood, even we may never had had a chance to ever test that. Do we build mental models of how objects with certain properties interact with the human body and with the natural environment, and keep track of things like objects' "floatability" or do we assemble this on the fly? (Related ideas include Gibson's affordances, divergent thinking, and design patterns)
E.R. Boer, E.C. Hildreth, & M.A. Goodrich (1998). A driver model of attention management and task scheduling: Satisficing décision making with dynamic mental models, In. Proceedings of the XVIJth European Annual Conference on Human Décision making and Manual Control, Valenciennes, France, Dec. 14-16
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It is clear that if we exercise something for example walking or shooting , our brain learn this function and we can do this better.
It is normal process of motor learning.
but the question is if we imagine these exersice in our mind without any physical activity, Can it have the same effect on our brain and our function?
Can we improve motor learning with just mental training?
Time to give a talk at your department in UCC....
Is there any other tool similar to ISM or TISM?
I am trying to find a measurement that can be used to assess in an individual's opinion is influenced by a individuals that they feel have power or by their peer group.
An example of this would be: A graduate student hears faculty in their department speak negatively about something, so they adopt these negative views, even if they have no personal experiences to form their opinion.
Can you help me choosing syllogism, that require the same number of MM (Byrne, Johnson-Laird), but have different informational gain (PHM, Oaksford, Chater)? High informational gain has a syllogism with low a priori probability (e.g. "all A are B") as the opposite are conclusions "some a re not b", which are very probable for random objects, and have low informational gain.
I want to model the perception of value, in decision making, with dynamic systems. The value is the price that the decision maker, is going to win/loose. My two main assumptions are:
1. Value perception is a nonlinear dynamic process in time.
2. The perception of a determined value is not constant. Consider A>B>C are three different values. If A and B are presented to a person, she will give less subjective weight to B with respect to when B and C are presented to her.
The general shape of value perception curve is known. Kahneman and Tvresky proposed a statistical curve for the subjective weighting function of the value (figure 1). [1]
I am looking to model the perception of value, with nonlinear dynamic equations.
The inspiration to do this work, are the publications of Rabinovich et al. [3, 4] and Muezzinoglu et. al. [2].
I don’t know where should I start. Is there a special method to find the proper equations?
References
[1] Kahneman, Daniel, and Amos Tversky. "Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk." Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society (1979): 263-291.
[2] Muezzinoglu, Mehmet K., et al. "Transients versus attractors in complex networks." International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 20.06 (2010): 1653-1675.
[3] Rabinovich, Mikhail I., et al. "Information flow dynamics in the brain." Physics of life reviews 9.1 (2012): 51-73.
[4] Rabinovich, Mikhail I., and Pablo Varona. "Robust transient dynamics and brain functions." Frontiers in computational neuroscience (2011).
Hello! For my Ph.D., I am doing experimental studies based on priming. My work involves the effect of the presence of a friend. In my experiment, I ask a control group participant to read a description of the person going to eat out alone. However, I ask the participants in the experimental group to think of their best friend and to imagine going to eat out with that friend. After reading the situation and imagining oneself in it, a participant answers my questions on the proposed mediating and dependent variables.
One of the weaknesses of experimental priming studies is that these responses are those elicited from mental models. While these behaviours might be indicative, they might not be what the individual will undertake in real life situations.
Can you help me to identify extant literature which shows evidence that responses to priming in the lab were the same as actual behaviour? That is, the responses by participants under experimental conditions were same as their actual behaviour under the same priming. Please note I am not talking of priming leading to behaviour as demonstrated by Bargh and his colleagues. Many thanks in advance!
It is interface which shows the image of user's mental image.
Last week I hold a session at the ‚Agile Cologne Conference’ regarding mental models of management in agile (project) management compared to traditional (project) management. Based on dimensions being often discussed for collective mental models in work-related context (e.g. goals and roles of management, interaction patterns, thinking about authority, and progress & improvement), I described a mental model of management that seems to be presupposed in agile project management. During the session I was asked whether there is a correlation between willingness to change the own mental model of management (in direction of agile mindset, self concept regarding servant leadership and values) and the grade of a firm’s economical health (which remains to be defined). It seems to me as an interesting research question. Does anyone recommend research papers in this area?
When you learn something new, your brain expands/appends to an already existing mental model. Similarly when an
ontology grows, it should be able to understand that : may be an individual can no longer remain as an individual;
it needs to be modified as a class and some properties needs to be attached to it to complete its description. Is it possible to do or at least understand that such a modification is required for some candidate in ontology (Off course without manual intervention) ? Is there any work in this direction?
I am using conceptual map in different stages of research as a tool to organise main concepts and as a research pool to track researched areas. I am looking to publications to support and defend their use.
It has seemed to me in my consulting practice that when staff nurses participate in reviewing their actual daily routines against best practices that they can then see that a shared mental model of actual "scheduled" processes in the day makes sense. They learn they must offer initial direction and ongoing checkpoints to NAPs (as would be suggested by state nurse practice acts) and also review team progress/success and offer feedback prior to the end of the shift (best teamwork routines).Interaction at eye level at the patient's bedside about patient/family goals becomes a norm. The new shared mental model ("A Day in the Life of an Expert") becomes part of a group teamwork identity.
At the present I note that some of the basic professional leadership practices are missing at the bedside: leadership in helping patients identify and engage in shared goals, lack of delegation and supervision of assistive personnel). Wouldn't the predominant method staff RNs use for processing (Conservator) support creating a clearly defined structure of best practices? Using a structure that incorporates expert practices and "routine" steps could potentially ensure better care and would fit thinking patterns.
Perhaps I am taking this study several steps too far?
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We aim to investigate the prevalence of mental disorder in individuals with intellectual disability in Portugal, and it would be important to administer a simple screening tool to divide the sample into mild, moderate and severe impairment, prior to administering the Mini-PAS-ADD.
And if Experiential Learning is based on Constructivism, what procedures or methods have you applied to evaluate your students (in sustainability education)? Are these procedures different from traditional methods of evaluation such as (objective) exams and essays? How do you evaluate the Construction of Mental Models of your students? Best wishes and happy new year!
I am interested in developing empirical evidence of the effectiveness of a particular experiential simulation for surfacing and shifting mental models about the importance of the enabling functions (HR and support functions) to organizational productivity.
We all commit mistakes while performing various roles. One learns a lot from them. It is also said that one must always learn from others' mistakes, as waiting to learn from own mistakes sometimes can be very expensive. Towards this end, can you share some stories of your life that helped you learn life lessons effectively?