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What is Mental Model ?

A mental model is an individual’s thought process or cognitive representation of how something in the world works. It’s essentially our internal ‘map’ of reality, created through personal experiences, perceptions, and understandings.

Additional Glossary Terms

Systematic Thinking

Systematic thinking is an analytical approach that scrutinizes individual parts of a system using linear cause-effect mechanisms to understand the whole. It employs step-by-step analysis, evaluation, and repetition, focusing on

Uncertainity

Uncertainty is a state of unpredictability or lack of certainty about future events, outcomes, or situations due to incomplete, ambiguous, or misunderstood information. This condition makes accurate prediction or decision-making

TRIZ

TRIZ is the Theory of Solving Inventive Problems (a Russian acronym for Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadach). Created by Genrich Altshuller starting in 1946, it is a science-based methodology designed to

POSIWID

POSIWID is an acronym for “The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.” It was coined by Stafford Beer, a prominent British management cybernetics. The concept of POSIWID suggests

Critical Systems Thinking (CST)

Critical Systems Thinking (CST) is second-order endeavor that that critically examines the philosophical and theoretical foundations of various systems methodologies. It acknowledges that real-world problems are inherently complex, multifaceted, and

Action Research

The term “action research” was coined around 1944 by the social psychologist Kurt Lewin. Lewin strongly believed that research in the social sciences must serve social practice, arguing that “Research