Prevention and correction in post-error performance: An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.

Prevention and correction in post-error performance: an ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.

Error detection serves 2 different functions: prevention and cure. Prevention engages post-error slowing to reduce future errors, whereas cure engages processes that correct the error. Thus, prevention predicts post-error slowing, and cure does not. We investigated this distinction in skilled typists in 3 experiments. In Experiment 1, post-error performance was investigated in 800 typists who c...

Pound of prevention, ounce of cure?

An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.

“An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure”

767 J Clin Psychiatry 68:5, May 2007 he future of child and adolescent psychiatry lies in the identification of prodromal presentations and risk factors associated with the onset and progression of psychopathology. Only once we begin to understand the early clinical manifestations of psychiatric disorders and the risk factors, genetic and environmental, associated with illness onset and outcome...

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure