Alice F. Healy, Lyle E. Bourne

Learning and Memory of Knowledge and Skills

Durability and Specificity

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do people forget some skills faster than others? What kind of training is most effective at getting people to retain new skills over a longer period of time? Cognitive psychologists address these questions in this volume by analyzing the results of experiments which used a wide variety of perceptual, cognitive and motoric training tasks. Studies reported on include: the Stroop effect; mental calculation; vocabulary retention; contextual interference effects; autobiographical memory; target detection; and specificity and transfer in choice reaction time tasks. Each chapter explores the extent to which reinstatement of training procedures during retention and transfer tests accounts for both durability and specificity of

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780803957596
• ISBN-10: 0803957599
• Artikelnr.: 37039713

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Alice F Healy and Lyle E Bourne Jr
Durability and Specificity of Facts and Skill
Optimizing the Long-Term Retention of Skills - Alice F Healy et al
The Long-Term Retention of a Complex Skill - William R Marmie and Alice F
Healy
Part-Whole Training of Tank Gunner Simulation Exercises
The Contribution of Procedural Reinstatement to Implicit and Explicit
Memory Effects in a Motor Task - David W Fendrich et al
The Effects of Contextual Interference on the Acquisition and Retention of
Logical Rules - Vivian I Schneider et al
A Generation Advantage for Multiplication Skill Training and Nonword
Vocabulary Acquisition - Danielle S McNamara and Alice F Healy
A Long-Term Retention Advantage for Spatial Information Learned Naturally
and in the Laboratory - William T Wittman and Alice F Healy
Long-Term Performance in Autobiographical Event Dating - John J Skowronski
et al
Patterns of Accuracy and Error Across a Two-and-a-Half Year Time Span
Training and Retention of the Classic Stroop Task - Deborah M Clawson et al
Specificity of Practice Effects
An Identical Elements Model of Basic Arithmetic Skills - Timothy C Rickard
and Lyle E Bourne Jr
Acquisition and Retention of Skilled Letter Detection - Janet D Proctor and
Alice F Healy
Acquisition and Transfer of Response-Selection Skill - Robert W Proctor and
Addie Dutta
The Specificity and Durability of Rajan¿s Memory - Rodney J Vogl and
Charles P Thompson