What ideas of psychology are useful for understanding expert medical doctors' decision making and for planning ways to improve it or maintain its quality. The role of memory in medical thinking. Expert performance depends on memory. Expert memory for cases is good. Association based errors in decision relevant judgments.
Pattern recognition involves activation of associated ideas.
Some associations may be irrelevant for optimal decisions. Vividness of past experience makes it come to mind easily. Decision making strategies. Strategies and their choice not always conscious. Strategies affect errors.