Abstract

ERAUSQUIN, Cristina et al. Categories to analyse the "mental models" that the psychologists in training build in "communities of learning and professional practice". Anu. investig. [online]. 2005, vol.12, pp.59-68. ISSN 1851-1686.

The aim is to develop categories to analyse the "mental models" that students of Psychology build, in University of Buenos Aires, as psychologists in training, to solve situated problems in professional intervention settings. We develop different axis, that go through tensions in each one of the dimensions of the "unit of analysis": a) situated problems, b) professional intervention, c) tools that are used, d) goals that are achieved and causal attribution. We compare the data we have found out, in a sample of students of Psychology, at the beginning and at the end of the Professional Apprenticeship developed in their undergraduate courses, with the data obtained in a sample of students of Psychology, at the beginning and at the end of a course of the Professional Education Cycle. Related with twists and changes that we have found out, we suppose an unconscious effect of dis-structuring, reorganization and affirmation in the components of the "unit of analysis".

Keywords : Mental models; Professional practice; Psychologists' apprenticeship.

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