Kenneth Craik (March 29, 1914 - May 7, 1945)

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  • Kenneth Craik

    Kenneth Craik was born on March 29, 1914. He was a philosopher and psychologist who attended the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and received his Doctorate from Cambridge University in 1940. He was appointed to be the first director of the Medical Research Council's Cambridge-based Applied psychology unit in 1944. "Kenneth Craik Https://prabook.com/web/mobile/#!profile/1749059"

  • The Nature of Explanation

    The Nature of Explanation
    The Nature of Explanation is a book published in 1943 by Kenneth Craik. This book laid the foundation for the concept of mental models, that the mind forms models of reality and uses them to predict similar future events. He was one of the earliest practitioners of cognitive science. It shows the power of explicit analogies from technical principals. "https://bsygrouppsychologystudy.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/fourty-years-on-kenneth-craiks-the-nature-of-explanation-02-09-2017/

  • Mental Models

    Craik was most widely known for his idea of mental models. A process that describes how people think. If an organism carries a "small scale model" of external reality and of its own possible actions in their head, is able to try out various alternatives, conclude which is the best of them, react to future situations before they arise, utilize the knowledge of past events in dealing with the present and the future and in every way react to a much fuller, safer more competent manner to a emergency

  • Kenneth Craik's Death

    Kenneth Craik was killed at the age of 31, caused by a fatal bicycle accident in 1945. In 1947 and 1948, the British Journal of British Psychology posthumously published hit two part paper on the Theory of Human Operators in Control Systems. "https://prabook.com/web/mobile/#!profile/1749059"