Knowledge from earlier phases forms memory layers through sedimentation and remains available when newer structures fail¶

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q1 i? Knowledge acquired in different phases forms layers in memory through a sedimentation process. → Schmidt 1993 q1 i? Earlier knowledge sediments remain available for use when more recently acquired structures fail to produce an adequate representation of a clinical problem. → Schmidt 1993

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Schmidt 1993¶

Schmidt, H.G., Boshuizen, H.P.A. (1993). On acquiring expertise in medicine. Educational Psychology Review 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323044

q1 · i? · theoretical · r?

The article explicitly frames this as an assumption: "It is assumed that knowledge acquired in different phases form layers in memory." The sediments "remain available for use" when newer structures fail, completing the theory's account of earlier-phase knowledge.

"It is assumed that knowledge acquired in different phases form layers in memory through a sedimentation process. These knowledge sediments, although usually not applied any more in subsequent phases in the development of expertise, remain available for use when ontologically more recently acquired structures fail to produce an adequate representation of a clinical problem."

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