Yeah, I'm not wild about those labels either. I confess they were thought up on the spur of the moment to try to explain the idea. The reasoning for the naming

Yeah, I'm not wild about those labels either. I confess they were thought up on the spur of the moment to try to explain the idea. The reasoning for the naming is essentially that an explicit mental model is one where you can write down all the steps, whileas an implicit model is one that just arises naturally from the things already in your brain and you can't really point to it and say what it is. I'm not sure that behavioural model quite captures that, but I'm definitely up for a better naming convention.