Recently, I was writing a report on some research, and here's a sentence from the introduction: The defining features of a good metaphor become acutely important for discussions of the metaphorical effects on reasoning and understanding of social policy issues.
Psychologists have observed systematic deviations from logical predictions of reasoning behavior on a variety of tasks and that content specific information can have marked effects on reasoning behavior.
If test prep can have such a dramatic effect on the reasoning skills of 3- and 4-year-olds, maybe it's time to extend the benefits of these ideas to all students.
Additionally, in order to check which of the categories of private speech had more effect on learners' reasoning; their t-values were compared.
Good clinical information systems can have a positive effect on clinical reasoning.
Changes in pre- to postinstruction scores on the DQCs showed that an instructor's teaching method had a highly significant effect on student reasoning following course instruction, especially for questions pertaining to cellular-level, carbon-transforming processes.
Scientific evidence about diagnostic tests rarely goes beyond the diagnostic accuracy level or immediate effect on diagnostic reasoning or therapeutic decisions, 76 even though patient-centred outcomes would allow more direct inferences about overall test utility.
The method supports prospective, laboratory-based studies and automated analysis, and therefore enables the researcher to experimentally manipulate parameters of interest in order to observe their effect on clinical reasoning and diagnostic errors.
In regards to the second main research question, the two question formats, with different number of alternatives, did not exert an independent effect on diagnostic reasoning strategy, as shown in the logistic regression analysis (Table 3).
