Logic

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Concept advancement: enhancing inductive validity.

Enhancing inductive validity while advancing a concept has always been a dilemma for qualitative researchers. This dilemma is paramount for researchers completing a series of small discrete projects all focused on the same concept. How do researchers use ...
Judith E Hupcey, Janice Penrod (Res Theory Nurs Pract, 2003SPRING)
concept-advancement-enhancing-inductive-validity.asp

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The conjunction effect: new evidence for robustness.

Five studies investigated the conjunction effect (or conjunction fallacy), in which participants report that the conjunction of two events is more rather than less likely than one of the events alone. There was no evidence that feedback or monetary ...
Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino, Edmund Fantino, Daniel J Zizzo, Julie Wen (Am J Psychol, 2003SPRING)
conjunction-effect-new-evidence-robustness.asp

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Specifying workflow process requirements for an emergency medical service.

Recent trends in healthcare delivery have led to a gradual shift in the conceptualisation of healthcare information systems towards supporting healthcare processes in a more direct way. The move towards integrated and managed care, which requires ...
M Poulymenopoulou, F Malamateniou, G Vassilacopoulos (J Med Syst, 200308)
specifying-workflow-process-requirements-emergency-medical-service.asp

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The meaning(s) of conditionals: conditional probabilities, mental models, and personal utilities.

Five experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that people understand conditional statements ("if p then q") as indicating a high conditional probability P(q/p). Participants estimated the probability that a given conditional is true (Experiments ...
Klaus Oberauer, Oliver Wilhelm (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200307)
meaning-s-conditionals-conditional-probabilities-mental-models.asp

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Does opposition logic provide evidence for conscious and unconscious processes in artificial grammar learning?

The question of whether studies of human learning provide evidence for distinct conscious and unconscious influences remains as controversial today as ever. Much of this controversy arises from the use of the logic of dissociation. The controversy has ...
Richard J Tunney, David R Shanks (Conscious Cogn, 200306)
opposition-logic-provide-evidence-conscious-unconscious-processes.asp

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The clinical reasoning characteristics of diagnostic experts.

The aim of this study was to identify and describe the clinical reasoning characteristics of diagnostic experts. A group of 21 experienced general practitioners were asked to complete the Diagnostic Thinking Inventory (DTI)and a set of 10 clinical ...
Michele Groves, Peter ORourke, Heather Alexander (Med Teach, 200305)
clinical-reasoning-characteristics-diagnostic-experts.asp

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Generalizability: beyond plausibility and handwaving.

The question of how we apply knowledge from biomedical science to medical and public health practice has been the subject of heated debates about generalizability and related concepts, such as applicability and inductive inference. In this essay, I ...
Eyal Shahar (J Eval Clin Pract, 200305)
generalizability-beyond-plausibility-handwaving.asp

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Critical thinking in respiratory care practice: a qualitative research study.

INTRODUCTION: Recent publications indicate that critical thinking should be an integral part of respiratory care education. However, we know very little about critical thinking in the context of respiratory care. The critical thinking abilities and ...
Shelley C Mishoe (Respir Care, 200305)
critical-thinking-respiratory-care-practice-qualitative-research-study.asp

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Direct causation in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events.

This research proposes a new theory of direct causation and examines how this concept plays a key role in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events. According to the no-intervening-cause hypothesis, a causal chain can be described by a ...
Phillip Wolff (Cognition, 200305)
direct-causation-linguistic-coding-individuation-causal-events.asp

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Experienced and less-experienced nurses diagnostic reasoning: implications for fostering students critical thinking.

PURPOSE: To compare the use of mental representations (heuristics) in diagnostic reasoning of expert (> or = 5 years experience) and novice (< 5 years experience) emergency nurses. METHODS: Clinical simulations were completed by a nationwide randomly ...
Catherine G Ferrario (Int J Nurs Terminol Classif, 200304-06)
experienced-less-experienced-nurses-diagnostic-reasoning-implications.asp