Everyday problem solving and instrumental activities of daily living: Support for domain specificity

KJ Kimbler - Behavioral Sciences, 2013 - mdpi.com
domains, but not the food domain. The current study attempts to extend this domain specific
… between domain-specific, reasoning-based everyday problem-solving performance and …

Everyday problem solving across the adult life span: influence of domain specificity and cognitive appraisal.

F Blanchard-Fields, Y Chen, L Norris - Psychology and aging, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
problems as a function of whether the situation was more emotional in nature. However, in
this study the domain specificity of the problem … the particular problem domain presented. …

Creativity and domain specificity: The effect of task type on multiple indexes of creative problem-solving.

R Reiter-Palmon, MY Illies, L Kobe Cross… - … , Creativity, and the …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
… In the pilot study, we evaluated three different realistic everyday problems. The dimensions
on which tasks were evaluated were based on a previous study to identify possible task …

Responses to the demands of everyday life: domain-specific or general coping?

U Sperling - Journal of Adult Development, 2003 - Springer
… This study focuses on how individuals deal with changes and problems in various
domains of everyday life. A descriptive classification system is used to conceptualize various …

Domain-generality versus domain-specificity in cognition

PA Frensch, A Buchner - The nature of cognition, 1999 - books.google.com
… in the domain of graphic design appear to have little, if anything, in common. The preceding
… : domain-generality versus domainspecificity. At a general and abstract level, domain-…

The domain generality–specificity of epistemological beliefs: A theoretical problem, a methodological problem or both?

M Limon - International Journal of Educational Research, 2006 - Elsevier
… “Are epistemological beliefs domain general or on the contrary, are they domain specific?” …
settings versus in all spheres of everyday life represent different research goals and aims and …

The generality vs domain-specificity of metacognitive skills in novice learning across domains

MVJ Veenman, JJ Elshout, J Meijer - Learning and instruction, 1997 - Elsevier
… restricted by a poor working method which stems from a lack of domainspecific knowledge.
… The problems dealt with the correlation between two dichotomous variables in everyday

Domain-general abilities applied to domain-specific tasks: Sensitivity to probabilities in perception, cognition, and language

MH Kelly, S Martin - Lingua, 1994 - Elsevier
… In fact, it seems to be a rather everyday, ho-hum … domainspecific approach should not cause
us to neglect the fact that similar types of problems are in fact encountered across domains, …

The domain specificity and generality of disjunctive reasoning: Searching for a generalizable critical thinking skill.

ME Toplak, KE Stanovich - Journal of educational psychology, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
… The domain specificity and generality of an important critical thinking skill was examined by
… these disjunctive reasoning tasks displayed considerable domain specificity, but 5 of the …

Children's use of domainspecific knowledge and domain‐general strategies in novel problem solving

L English - British journal of educational psychology, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
… a set of six combinatorial problems involving the dressing of toy … the problem domain was
novel, the children had to use their existing general strategies to help them solve the problems. …