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The development of new functional features by instruction: The case of medical education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Lee R. Brooks
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1 [email protected] www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/faculty.list.html

Abstract

Medical education provides many examples of the development of functional features, but as a response to deliberate instruction. These features require so much specificity and context sensitivity that they seem likely to require the development of new categories of appearances rather than just reweighting old features. A suggested implication is that feature development may help to explain the problematic noticing of features in diagnosis.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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