Flowing Waters or Teeming Crowds: Mental Models of Electricity 论文

详细信息

发表期刊/会议

Psychology Press eBooks

发表日期

2014-01-14

发表年份

2014

摘要

Analogical comparisons with simple or familiar systems occur often in people’s descriptions of complex systems, sometimes as explicit analogical models, and sometimes as implicit analogies, in which the person seems to borrow structure from the base domain without noticing it. Phrases like “ current being routed along a conductor,” or “ stopping the flow” of electricity are examples.