background: one of the main goals of nursing education is training them to provide proper medical services to patients as well as healthy people in the community and health centers using their knowledge and specific skills. this service requires nurses’ critical thinking and effective learning. the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of critical thinking skills on decision making ...

1 Beach, F. A.: Hormones and behavior: A survey of interrelationships between endocrine secretions and patterns of overt response (Hoeber, London 1948). 2 Faure, J. et Loiseau, P.: Action de substances hormonales sur l’activité électrique du cerveau, la respiration, le cycle d’excitabilité et le comportement de la lapine. Rev. neurol. 91: 460-468 (1954). 3 Hartmann, E.: The D state and the mens...

objective: the current research is to investigate the relation between deterministic thinking and mental health among drug abusers, in which the role of  cognitive distortions is considered and clarified by focusing on deterministic thinking. methods: the present study is descriptive and correlative. all individuals with experience of drug abuse who had been referred to the shafagh rehabilitati...

the present study aims to determine the psychometric characteristics of the watson–glaser critical thinking test among employees in the iranian national oil company. for this purpose, 380 employees referred to ‘the assessment center’in 1390-91 were selected through random sampling method  . the research method is a descriptive – instrument maling one. in which two tests were used:  1)watson–gla...

Is there a characteristic Chinese conception of historical time, or perhaps a conception of time with Chinese characteristics? As far as such metahistorical issues are concerned, the title of this volume is noncommittal. It does not claim, for example, that there was a unitary conception of time in Chinese historical thinking, or that notions of time that developed in China differed essentially...

Kwanghyun Park and Celeste Kinginger Pennsylvania State University The advance of digital video technology in the past two decades facilitates empirical investigation of learning in real time. The focus of this paper is the combined use of realtime digital video and a networked linguistic corpus for exploring the ways in which these technologies enhance our capability to investigate the cogniti...