%0 Journal Article
%T Johnson-Laird's mental models theory and its principles: an application with cell mental models of high school students
%A Ma Luz Rodr¨ªguez Palmero
%A Javier Marrero Acosta
%A Marco Antonio Moreira
%J Investiga£¿£¿es em Ensino de Ci¨ºncias
%D 2001
%I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
%X Following a discussion of Johnson-Laird's mental models theory, we report a study regarding high school students mental representations of cell, understood as mental models. Research findings suggest the appropriatedness of such a theory as a framework to interpret students' representations.
%K mental models
%K cell
%K Johnson-Laird's theory
%U http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID76/v6_n3_a2001.pdf