The structural learning hypothesis predicts that subjects who had experienced random visuomotor rotations should exhibit strong facilitation when faced with a particular instance of this class of visuomotor transformation as was observed in our experiment.
In such instances, faced with the fear that complications might set in and the difficulty of following up disease progress, practitioners tend to prescribe an antibiotic, even though its indication may well be questionable.
(The book, published in 2001, alas, is now out of date.) If you know you'll be faced with a long layover, for instance, a search of forums on the popular Web site flyertalk.com will uncover frequent travelers' opinions about most big American and international airports.
Or could this procedure be acceptable in certain circumstances (for instance, when faced with a serious crime or a terrorist attack)?
For instance, when faced with an ambiguous and potentially dangerous situation, infants turn to their caregivers and use referential emotional cues to adjust their behaviour [9] [11].
Emergency doctors are for instance frequently faced with extremely worried patients but have limited opportunities to build a trusting doctor-patient relationship, and may consequently rely on different strategies for reassurance.
For instance, when faced with the recurrence of a strain of C. difficile in a hospital after more than 3 years of absence, Eyre and colleagues [ 25] concluded that unsuspected community transmission of C. difficile was the most likely explanation for their observations.
In this study some patients received a natural care, but others faced with an ethical and in some instances a non- ethical care.
Steven Hales, for instance, argues that faced with disagreement and given non-neutrality, relativism is the most viable non-skeptical conclusion to draw (Hales 2006: 98; 2014).
