Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology

In modeling the reality, we rely on our knowledge, irrespective if this knowledge is real or imaginative, simple or sophisticated; our mental models are constructed in many cases of fragmentary information. Many studies regarding mental modeling focus on the study of cognitive processes that take place in the human mind, in certain specific cases such as problem solving. The mental model is constructed with the aim of understanding an aspect of the outside world. In the process of mental modeling, the individual will necessarily use his acquired knowledge. When the individual develops a certain mental scheme, he can acknowledge that this scheme is inadequate for his purposes. Now it is the moment in which he starts developing a new mental model in order to understand what is happening on the outside. The mental model is constructed with the aim of understanding an aspect of the outside world, of the reality. In the process of mental modeling, the individual will necessarily use his acquired knowledge and depends on the speed he sets up an adequate relationship between previous knowledge and the new information provided by the outside reality. When the individual develops a certain mental scheme, he can acknowledge that this scheme is inadequate for his purposes. Now it is the moment in which he starts developing a new mental model in order to understand what is happening on the outside.