Apply MPSA Cone across professions to interpret cognitive structure, stress, personnel selection, and robot design¶

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Description¶

The article proposes the MPSA Cone as an interpretive tool across diversified professions: in information technology, it "may provide alternative inquiry and interpretations regarding human's cognitive structure" when studying how people retrieve information presented by technology experts; in psychology, counseling, and health professions, for studying stress caused by differing problem-solving modes; in business, for identifying CEOs, fund managers, and analysts; and in engineering, for deciphering robot design styles.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Practitioners need to determine which mode of problem-solving action characterizes the clients, personnel, or systems they are analyzing

Constraints¶

• All applications are speculative proposals; the article poses questions (e.g., whether technical-mode CEOs perform better in economic downturns) without answering them with data

Target Learners¶

• professionals in information technology, psychology, counseling, family and consumer sciences, health professions, business, and engineering

Target Learning Goals¶

• interpreting clients' and colleagues' problem-solving dispositions
• professional development and personnel selection

Affordances¶

• Mpsa Cone Three Modes Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Use MPSA mode analysis in needs assessment to match teaching methods with students' problem-solving modes

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Lai, Su-Huei. (2002). Cone-Deciphered Modes of Problem Solving Action (MPSA Cone): Alternative Perspectives on Diversified Professions. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED468444