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Mental hygiene movement refers to a movement to treat mental patients more humanely and to view mental disorders as medical diseases.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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Mental hygiene movement

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Mental models approach to the study of reasoning

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