Title: A Fuzzy Trace Theory of Medical
Decision Making.
Valerie Reyna, PhD
Dept of Surgery,
Education
University of Arizona,
Tucson
vreyna@u.arizona.edu
American Psychological Annual Meetings, San Francisco, August 26, 2001.
The theory of fuzzy traces assumes that during an
experience, both verbatim and gist representations are formed. These
representations are encoded, stored, and retrieved independently. Applied to
the knowledge applied in practice by physicians, we might assume that the gist
representation may be involved in the recognition of disease presentations,
while the verbatim representation may be activated by questions, by the need to
explain to patients or to students, or by the need to document the encounter. Evidence
from a variety of studies supporting the existence of the two types of
representations is presented.
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