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Mental illness is the term formerly used to mean psychological disorder but less preferred because it implies that the causes of the disorder can be found in a medical disease process.

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Mental image is a form of representational thought that involves the ability to hold the picture of a person, object, or event in one's mind even in the absence of the stimulus itself.

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Mental imagery refers to the internal representation of an external event.

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Mental images are internal images or visual depictions used in memory and thinking.

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Mental lexicon refers to the knowledge of words that speakers of a language possess; the dictionary in the head.

Mental models is defined as the knowledge structures that individuals construct to understand and explain their experiences; an internal representation of information that corresponds analogously with whatever is being represented; a mental representation of some aspect of the world.

- Mental models approach to the study of reasoning : Mental models approach to the study of reasoning refers to the idea that reasoning proceeds with general-purpose cognitive processes used in the construction of mental representations.

Mental operations refer to the transformation - carried out in thought rather than action - that modifies an object, event, or idea. Moreover, Mental operations are cognitive actions that can be performed on objects or ideas