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Birth and Death and Citations
Zangwill, O. L. “Kenneth Craik: The Man and His Work *.” British Journal of Psychology, vol. 71, no. 1, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Feb. 1980, pp. 1–16, doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1980.tb02723.x “What Are Mental Models? – Mental Models and Reasoning Lab.” Princeton University, The Trustees of Princeton University, mentalmodels.princeton.edu/about/what-are-mental-models/. -
Visual Adaptation
Kenneth Craik created and apparatus that shows how visual adaptation is represented through certain lights and their sensitivity to those different lights. Craik came up with the term "Range setting" and this basically says that your eyes are setting to a low dim light and that they react to fast pulsing light. -
The Man and His Work
Kenneth Craik was a unique individual. There was plenty of names that he worked with that would vouch for him. He was said that he was very interested in things and situations that were uncomfortable. He had no problem putting himself into this situations. He would drink weird things to see the effects that it had on his vision. He would cover one of his eyes and stare at the moon and see what kind of adverse effects it would have as well. This seems like it would be helpful in science. -
Mental Models
Kenneth Craik came up with these mental models to really illustrate how things are explained. Small scale models that are used to anticipate events, to reason, and to underlie explanation. Basically these models show the possibilities of a situation and play it out in your head. -
The Nature of Explanation
This was the book Craik lived to complete. A book that was completely about the nature and function of explanation through science and ordinary situations. This book is negative in his first parts because he basically says that the explanations for all science is wrong and to fix it, they would have to go back and start all over again.
