Quick thinking and naturalistic decision making - the same thing?

Psychological approaches to decision making and problem solving have traditionally developed into distinct areas of research with identifiable paradigms and exclusive topic areas. Thus, standard textbooks like Reed (1992) deal with issues concerning these areas in separate chapters. It can be argued that more recent models of decision making derived from studies of decision making in real-world situations suggest that there may be stronger links between these areas of cognition than originally supposed. Further, it is suggested that problem solving may be more important in understanding exception handling via interfaces because the qualities of the decision making environment require a problem solving approach to produce effective decision making. This may well be the case with problem situations that have not been encountered previously, which present incomplete information and have no easily defined optimal course of action derived from logical analysis or a probabilistic assessment of the situation