Cognitive Scaffold

Preparing your thinking workspace

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MENTAL MODEL · M12517

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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. It calculates the distance of each alternative to the "ideal solution" and the "negative ideal solution", and selects the alternative closest to the ideal solution.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

psychology

Reduce cognitive load

Multi-objective trade-off. It provides a systematic ranking method under multiple evaluation criteria.

anchor

Anchor fast decisions

TOPSIS: The closer an alternative is to the positive ideal solution and the farther it is from the negative ideal solution, the better it is. Ranking is based on relative closeness.

MINIMUM ACTION

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Source support: Explicit

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