The Competent Mind: Beyond Cognition
Influences outside what is in the head of the practitioner
Data and environment
Leads to emphasis on teamwork and collaboration
The psychology
Attention
Bottom up vs top down
Bottom up based on raw input - involuntary attention
Top-down implement longer-term cognitive strategies
Automaticity and freeing up of cognitive resources with expertise - moving processes from system 2 (effortful, analytic, creative, deliberative) to system 1 (automatic, intuitive, effortless, nonanalytic)
Attention and competence
Competence as automatic
Competence as effortful
Competence as slowing down when you should (i.e. switching between the two)
Bereiter and Scardamalia use effortful attention as a differentiator between the experienced non-expert and the true expert
Situational awareness
Metacognition - the regulation of cognition. AKA "thinking about thinking". Reflective intelligence and self-monitoring
Interaction of metacognition and automaticity
Problem that automatic processes involve tacit knowledge
Tacit knowledge aka subsidiart awareness, gut feeling, intuition
Heuristics and shortcuts
Mindful practice
Key strategy for harnessing metacognition
Attempting to achieve "attentive automaticity"
The role of context - situational and cultural factors
Situtated competence
Social identity and medical culture
Inner feelings and emotions
Shared mind
Communities of practice and distributed cognition/collaborative cognition/ team situational awareness/ collective competence
Collaborative cognition - compensating for deficits in each others' ability