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Fraundorf, Scott H.; Caddick, Zachary A.; Nokes-Malach, Timothy J.; Rottman, Benjamin M. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2023
Is self-assessment enough to keep physicians' cognitive skills--such as diagnosis, treatment, basic biological knowledge, and communicative skills--current? We review the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of self-assessment in the context of maintaining medical expertise. Cognitive science supports the importance of accurately self-assessing…
Descriptors: Physicians, Expertise, Thinking Skills, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Shreeves, Michael; Gugerty, Leo; Moore, DeWayne – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2020
Background: Research on causal reasoning often uses group-level data analyses that downplay individual differences and simple reasoning problems that are unrepresentative of everyday reasoning. In three empirical studies, we used an individual differences approach to investigate the cognitive processes people used in fault diagnosis, which is a…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Learning Strategies, Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking