For some it is a matter of modifying "cognitive structures" (i.e., perceptual representations of the world or parts of the world), while others regard it as internal problem-solving behaviour.
For substudy 2 action research was used to engage practices in a process of collective, internal problem-solving to introduce a change in the role of the nurse.
Companies that are forever reorganising, employ managers who prefer teams based on a "personality cult" and have review systems that are easily manipulated by the reporting manager, tend to reward those who can figure out internal politics more than problem solving, innovation or team building.
In Healy's opinion, electronic gaming at a young age can lead to shorter attention spans, a lack of internal motivation, difficulty with problem solving and a lack of creativity.
In the present study we slightly modify the original list-processing task in order to examine the interplay of external and internal representations in distributed problem solving.
The functional role of the DMN has been described in the literature with concepts, such as task-unrelated thoughts, stream of consciousness, self-referential processes, verbal and visual imagery, planning and problem solving, internal monitoring and episodic memory encoding [3], [4], [5], [26], [49], [59].
Educational researchers often refer to the process of problem solving and internal motivation as "flow" (Csikszentmihalyi 1975).
Content analysis assumes that the structure and content of internal representations is critical to understanding problem solving behavior.
For locus of control and coping, the categorisation in the type of locus (internal or external) or coping style (problem solving, expressing emotions or looking for distraction) was used.
Children identified in the Rochester Child Resilience Project as stress-affected [ 36] evidenced such characteristics - they had significantly lower scores than both stress-resilient children and non-classified children on problem solving, coping and internal locus of control.
