#important The scientific method can be used to build new ideas/knowledge. Knowing the process would be good but focusing on how to use the process will be great practice in understanding how to formalize a hypothesis, or null hypothesis about the observed system, and test to see what the results tell you about the experiment.

Mental model is a way where we mentally draw previous knowledge on a particular subject to expand or elaborate on new mental model that involves our known knowledge. It's important cause it helps connect ideas and get us think of material and drawing inferences.

I totally agree with this statement, and I thought this statement as natural selection benefiting the species in one way that influence their own fitness and survival of whole species, almost like the survival of the fittest.