CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A mental model approach to cognition goes beyond stakeholders’ preferences, goals, and values associated with a given resource, to provide a rich picture of how stakeholders perceive natural resource systems to function.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mental models help you understand life. For example, supply and demand is a mental model that helps you understand how the economy works. Game theory is a mental model that helps you understand how relationships and trust work. Entropy is a mental model that helps you understand how disorder and decay work.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mental models are any organized pattern (often a visual representation) consisting of both structure and process (a flow chart of sorts) that helps a student comprehend content knowledge and/or solve problems relative to the principle being taught. Advance organizers are often thought of as mental models.