Problem Solving

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Spatial behaviour is driven by proximal cues even in mildly impaired Parkinsons disease.

This investigation addresses the question whether patients with mild to moderate Parkinsons disease (PD) show spatial deficits in real-life settings. Therefore, a "search through"-locomotor task incorporating basic features of both the radial arm maze ...
Bernd Leplow, Doris Höll, Lingju Zeng, Arne Herzog, Kathrin Behrens, Maximilian Mehdorn (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
spatial-behaviour-driven-proximal-cues-even-mildly-impaired-parkinson.asp

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Patients as partners, patients as problem-solvers.

This article reports our ongoing work in developing a model of health care communication called collaborative interpretation, which we define as a rhetorical practice that generates building blocks for a more complete and coherent diagnostic story and ...
Amanda Young, Linda Flower (Health Commun, 2002)
patients-partners-patients-problem-solvers.asp

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Medical decision-making: an argument for narrative and metaphor.

This study examines the processes of decision-making used by intensive care (critical care) specialists. Ninety-nine specialists completed a questionnaire involving three clinical cases, using a novel methodology investigating the role of uncertainty and ...
Katherine Hall (Theor Med Bioeth, 2002)
medical-decision-making-argument-narrative-metaphor.asp

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Object motor representation and reaching-grasping control.

The following two competing hypotheses were tested in the present study. Is grasp guided by multiple representations of a single object, each of which codes a different grasp motor act according to the physical properties of that item? Conversely, is ...
Maurizio Gentilucci (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
object-motor-representation-reaching-grasping-control.asp

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The disturbing effect of irrelevant information on arithmetic problem solving in inattentive children.

Two studies explored the influence of irrelevant information on the problem-solving ability of children rated as inattentive by their teachers, on the basis of symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as defined by the Diagnostic and ...
Gian Marco Marzocchi, Daniela Lucangeli, Tiziana De Meo, Federica Fini, Cesare Comoldi (Dev Neuropsychol, 2002)
disturbing-effect-irrelevant-information-arithmetic-problem-solving.asp

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Executive function profile of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

We explored the neuropsychological profile for executive functions of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to assess whether problems associated with the two most cited relevant processes--inhibition and attentional ...
Tim Shallice, Gian Marco Marzocchi, Silvano Coser, Maria Del Savio, Renata F Meuter, Raffaella I Rumiati (Dev Neuropsychol, 2002)
executive-function-profile-children-attention-deficit-hyperactivity.asp

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The role of early parenting in childrens development of executive processes.

Using structural modeling, we examined the influence of mothers verbal input that provided information about associations between objects and actions (scaffolding) at 3 and 4 years of age on childrens 6-year executive processing skills. Executive ...
Susan H Landry, Cynthia L Miller-Loncar, Karen E Smith, Paul R Swank (Dev Neuropsychol, 2002)
role-early-parenting-children-s-development-executive-processes.asp

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Goal specificity and learning with a hypermedia program.

Problem solving research has found that a nonspecific goal (NSG) leads to better learning than a specific goal (SG). This effect can be understood in terms of dual-space search theories of problem solving. To apply the theory, we studied goal specificity ...
Regina Vollmeyer, Bruce D Burns (Exp Psychol, 2002)
goal-specificity-learning-hypermedia-program.asp

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The elusive matching bias effect in the disjunctive selection task.

When reasoning with conditional statements (i.e., if [not] p then [not] q), for example when solving Wasons selection task, subjects tend to display matching bias: Options which match the entities named in the rule tend to be selected irrespective of ...
Maxwell J Roberts (Exp Psychol, 2002)
elusive-matching-bias-effect-disjunctive-selection-task.asp

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Quality control circles in the Veterans Administration hospital.

In response to residents reports of inefficiencies in the Veterans Administration (VA) system, a temporary task force of quality control circles was implemented at a VA hospital. A total of 25 internal medicine residents, on rotation at the VA, were ...
Cem Canel, Sukran Kadipasaoglu (Int J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv, 2002)
quality-control-circles-veterans-administration-hospital.asp