Predicted causality in decision making: the role of culture

Respecting Autonomous Decision Making Among Filipinos: A Re‐emphasis in Genetic Counseling

“…Any fear, or any overwhelming emotion, insecurities, and/or peer pressure should be evaluated, as these may hinder autonomous decision making and pose undue influence on the child's reasoning, thus, preventing an autonomous choice. Guss and Robinson (2014) further highlighted that decision making is rooted in the problem solving process where causal cognition is itself influenced by one's culture. During decision making, the decision maker usually has to predict what consequences specific decisions could bring about before making a decision.…”

Analysis of minimal complex systems and complex problem solving require different forms of causal cognition

“…Therefore, cultural differences (Güss and Robinson, 2014) and cultural ecosystems (Medin et al, 2014) will become more visible when dealing with complex problems.…”

Discussing Active Learning from the Practitioner’s Perspective

“…Teams were assessed for team spirit and outcomes, -petitive element was a stimulating part of the process, and, as pointed out by Pinheiro and Simoes (2012), active learning through such an environment seemed to get students actively involved in their own learning process, especially when tasks involved an empirical component. Goddard et al (2014) found that "student engagement increased from 20% to 70% in [team based learning]…with an increase in critical thinking skills and increased Next, the teams explained the organization of the essay by breaking it down into the introduction, members decided on the kind of passage or mode of writing from a provided list. The passage was each team explained the reasons for the team choice.…”

“…Students were given a prewriting activity in the divided into main groups and then sub-divided to work in other teams to share their parts of the puzzle (Ghaith & El-Malak, 2004;Goddard, Wood, O'Shea, & Toohey, 2014). The puzzle was a passage divided into paragraphs according to the number of teams.…”