Klaus Hentschel. Photons: The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta. xiii + 231 pp., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018. €75 (cloth). ISBN 9783319952512.

Olival Freire

doi:10.1086/709405

Klaus Hentschel. Photons: The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta. xiii + 231 pp., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018. €75 (cloth). ISBN 9783319952512.

Isis ◽

10.1086/709405 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 111 (2) ◽

pp. 416-417

Author(s):

Olival Freire

Keyword(s):

Mental Models ◽

Light Quanta

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Photons. The history and mental models of light quanta

Annals of Science ◽

10.1080/00033790.2019.1644667 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 76 (3-4) ◽

pp. 387-389

Author(s):

J. L. Heilbron

Keyword(s):

Mental Models ◽

Light Quanta

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Klaus Hentschel. Photons: The history and mental models of light quanta. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer International Publishing, 2018, XIII + 231 pp. ISBN: 9783319952512

Centaurus ◽

10.1111/1600-0498.12244 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 61 (4) ◽

pp. 455-456

Author(s):

Alexander S. Blum

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Mental Models ◽

Light Quanta ◽

International Publishing

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Acquisition and Use of Mental Operators: Effects of Type of Practice

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027//1618-3169.49.2.141 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 141-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Burkhard Müller ◽

Jürgen Gehrke

Keyword(s):

Mental Models ◽

Test Performance ◽

Physical World ◽

Test Phase ◽

Acquisition Phase ◽

Practice Test ◽

Subsequent Test ◽

Use Of Knowledge

Abstract. Planning interactions with the physical world requires knowledge about operations; in short, mental operators. Abstractness of content and directionality of access are two important properties to characterize the representational units of this kind of knowledge. Combining these properties allows four classes of knowledge units to be distinguished that can be found in the literature: (a) rules, (b) mental models or schemata, (c) instances, and (d) episodes or chunks. The influence of practicing alphabet-arithmetic operators in a prognostic, diagnostic, or retrognostic way (A + 2 = ?, A? = C, or ? + 2 = C, respectively) on the use of that knowledge in a subsequent test was used to assess the importance of these dimensions. At the beginning, the retrognostic use of knowledge was worse than the prognostic use, although identical operations were involved (A + 2 = ? vs. ? - 2 = A). This disadvantage was reduced with increased practice. Test performance was best if the task and the letter pairs were the same as in the acquisition phase. Overall, the findings support theories proposing multiple representational units of mental operators. The disadvantage for the retrognosis task was recovered in the test phase, and may be evidence for the importance of the order of events independent of the order of experience.

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