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very good green hardcover with printed cover titles, attractive copy. GENTNER, DEDRE / STEVENS, ALBERT L., ed. . Mental models. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983, 3d printing number line ending in 3, viii, 348pp., . Series: Cognitive science - This classic volume compiles and describes interdisciplinary research on the formal nature of human knowledge about the world. Three key dimensions that characterize mental models research are examined: the nature of the domain studied, the nature of the theoretical approach, and the nature of the methodology. - 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. 9780898592429 ISBN 0898592429.…