Tag Archives: Perception

Oakes, L. M., & Cohen, L. B. (1990). Infant perception of a causal event. Cognitive Development, 5(2), 193-207.

Two experiments investigated 6- and 10-month-old infants’ perception of launching events. According to Michotte (1963), spatial and temporal features of such events define them as either causal or noncausal. These features should cue the direct perception of causality early in life. The present experiments examined the development of the perception of these features and the …

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Jha, A. K., Orav, E. J., Zheng, J., &Epstein, A. M. (2008). Patients& #39; perception of hospital care in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 359(18), 1921-1931.

Background Patients’ perceptions of their care, especially in the hospital setting, are not well known. Data from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey provide a portrait of patients’ experiences in U.S. hospitals. Methods We assessed the performance of hospitals across multiple domains of patients’ experiences. We examined whether key characteristics …

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