Problem Solving

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Of rocks and safe channels: learning to navigate as an interprofessional team.

A new interprofessional primary care team was established in a greenfield site. Using anethnographic approach, significant experiences in the formation of the team were documented and specific problem areas were defined and addressed using action ...
Hilarie Bateman, Peter Bailey, Hilary McLellan (J Interprof Care, 200305)
rocks-safe-channels-learning-navigate-interprofessional-team.asp

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When prejudice does not pay: effects of interracial contact on executive function.

This study examined the influence of interracial interaction on the cognitive functioning of members of a dominant racial group. White participants had a brief interaction with either a White or a Black confederate, and then completed an ostensibly ...
Jennifer A Richeson, J Nicole Shelton (Psychol Sci, 200305)
prejudice-not-pay-effects-interracial-contact-executive-function.asp

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Children are cursed: an asymmetric bias in mental-state attribution.

Young children have problems reasoning about false beliefs. We suggest that this is at least partially the result of the same curse of knowledge that has been observed in adults--a tendency to be biased by ones own knowledge when assessing the knowledge ...
Susan A J Birch, Paul Bloom (Psychol Sci, 200305)
children-cursed-asymmetric-bias-mental-state-attribution.asp

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Cognitive representation of negative numbers.

To understand negative numbers, must we refer to positive number representations (the phylogenetic hypothesis), or do we acquire a negative mental number line (the ontogenetic hypothesis)? In the experiment reported here, participants made lateralized ...
Martin H Fischer (Psychol Sci, 200305)
cognitive-representation-negative-numbers.asp

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Asymmetry in judgments of moral blame and praise: the role of perceived metadesires.

An important consideration in judging the blameworthiness (or praiseworthiness) of an action is whether the agent had sufficient control over it. In three experiments, we investigated judgments of moral blame and praise elicited when individuals were ...
David Pizarro, Eric Uhlmann, Peter Salovey (Psychol Sci, 200305)
asymmetry-judgments-moral-blame-praise-role-perceived-metadesires.asp

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The undershoot bias: learning to act optimally under uncertainty.

Learning in stochastic environments is increasingly viewed as an important psychological ability. To extend these results from a perceptual to a motor domain, we tested whether participants could learn to solve a stochastic minimal-time task using ...
Sascha E Engelbrecht, Neil E Berthier, Laura P OSullivan (Psychol Sci, 200305)
undershoot-bias-learning-act-optimally-under-uncertainty.asp

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The development of numerical estimation: evidence for multiple representations of numerical quantity.

We examined childrens and adults numerical estimation and the representations that gave rise to their estimates. The results were inconsistent with two prominent models of numerical representation: the logarithmic-ruler model, which proposes that people ...
Robert S Siegler, John E Opfer (Psychol Sci, 200305)
development-numerical-estimation-evidence-multiple-representations.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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Integration of study material in the problem-based learning method.

Throughout the world educators are starting to realise that integrated curricula reflect the "real world". Students learn how to integrate theory appropriately with practice and it stimulates higher order thinking skills. Problem-based learning (PBL) was ...
S Becker, M J Viljoen, Y Botma, I J Bester (Curationis, 200305)
integration-study-material-problem-based-learning-method.asp

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How Japanese nurses provide care: a practice based on continuously knowing the patient.

AIM: Criticisms of the nursing process as a problem-solving approach have emerged recently. This study aimed to identify and describe a way of nursing based on the clinical practice of selected nurses in Japan. METHODS: Data were collected using ...
Yukie Takemura, Katsuya Kanda (J Adv Nurs, 200305)
japanese-nurses-provide-care-practice-based-continuously-knowing.asp