Importance of Considering Cognitive Psychology
To understand how to design, develop, and implement effective healthcare IT, an understanding of key areas of cognitive psychology is relevant.6 Cognitive psychology is the field that studies human reasoning and information processing (information seeking and decision making), including studies of perception, attention, memory, learning, and skill development. For example, studies of how clinicians gain experience and expertise in their area of work are relevant for designing user interfaces that better match the information processing of end users in that work area. Further, understanding the limitations of human memory has led user interface experts to develop simple heuristics “rules of thumb” ...
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