General fluid/inductive reasoning battery for a high-ability population

General intelligence predicts reasoning ability even for evolutionarily familiar content

Article history: Received 7 January 2011 Received in revised form 12 May 2011 Accepted 17 May 2011 Available online xxxx The existence of general-purpose cognitive mechanisms related to intelligence, which appear to facilitate all forms of problem solving, conflicts with the strong modularity view of the mind espoused by some evolutionary psychologists. The current study assessed the contributi...

The battery for assessment of clinical reasoning in the Olympiad for medical sciences students

Clinical reasoning is not only a critical skill in medicine, but also central to the clinical practice. Considering that there is no method of assessing clinical reasoning based on the theoretical framework of medical expertise research, we could approach assessment in an innovative way taking the model of clinical reasoning as a guide. In this model three major components of clinical reasoning...

Sex differences in general knowledge, semantic memory and reasoning ability.

This paper has the three objectives of attempting to replicate a previous study in which it was found that males have substantially greater general knowledge in most fields or domains than females, and of determining how far sex differences in general knowledge are a function of differences in either Gf (fluid intelligence), or experience. The results confirmed the previous study to the effect ...

Models of clinical reasoning with a focus on general practice: a critical review

Introduction: Diagnosis lies at the heart of general practice.Every day general practitioners (GPs) visit patients with awide variety of complaints and concerns, with often minor butsometimes serious symptoms. General practice has many featureswhich differentiate it from specialty care setting, but during thelast four decades little attention was paid to clinical reasoningin general practice. T...

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