Crosscutting Mental Models

Crosscutting concepts helps in transfer of learning in all domains and are important tools for making sense of phenomena that can be observed and the mental model is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world.

Patterns: Observed patterns of forms and events guide organization and classification of prompt questions about relationships and factors that influence them.

 

e.g. How would you classify introvert and extroverts by looking at the patterns? What are the similarities and differences between them? Is introversion or extroversion comes under a spectrum or is dichotomous (mutually exclusive). Do introverts pull themselves further towards extreme introversion after knowing they are introverts (The Self-fulfilling prophecy in the beginning, a false definition of the situation, evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of introverts and extroverts?

Key Differences: Introvert and Extrovert

 

 

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