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Haupt, Grietjie – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2015
Empirical evidence on the way in which expert designers from different domains cognitively connect their internal processes with external resources is presented in the context of an extended cognition model. The article focuses briefly on the main trends in the extended design cognition theory and in particular on recent trends in information…
Descriptors: Design, Expertise, Cognitive Processes, Models
Grotzer, Tina A. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012
What do children's interactions on the playground have to do with foreign policy? How does science understanding in middle school relate to environmental disasters in third world countries? The causal patterns that we detect and how we act upon them pervade every aspect of our lives. These skills will only become more important in the future as…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Causal Models, Decision Making, Attitude Change
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Solway, Alec; Botvinick, Matthew M. – Psychological Review, 2012
Recent work has given rise to the view that reward-based decision making is governed by two key controllers: a habit system, which stores stimulus-response associations shaped by past reward, and a goal-oriented system that selects actions based on their anticipated outcomes. The current literature provides a rich body of computational theory…
Descriptors: Habit Formation, Brain, Decision Making, Rewards
Shafat, Gabriel; Levin, Ilya – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
This paper deals with two types of logical problems--recognition problems and reverse engineering problems, and with the interrelations between these types of problems. The recognition problems are modeled in the form of a visual representation of various objects in a common pattern, with a composition of represented objects in the pattern.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Online Searching, Search Strategies
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Lakomski, Gabriele; Evers, Colin W. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to argue that emotion has a central role to play in rational decision making based on recent research in the neuroanatomy of emotion. As a result, traditional rational decision-making theories, including Herbert Simon's modified model of satisficing that sharply demarcates emotions and values from rationality…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Role, Decision Making, Logical Thinking
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers