Dictionary Of Mental Models For Pharmacists And Scientists

"Community pharmacists’ mental models were characterized by two similarities: • a similarity in what community pharmacists seek to establish about patients, and • a similarity in when community pharmacists seek to establish it—the sequence in which they try to learn certain key details about patients."

"The scientific method is an empirical method of knowledge acquisition which has characterized the development of natural science since at least the 17th century. It involves careful observation, which includes rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions about how the world works influence how one interprets a percept."