Learning and Memory of Knowledge and Skills – 9780803957589
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| Return Postage Will Be Paid By | Buyer |
| Returns Accepted | Returns Accepted |
| After Receiving The Item, Your Buyer Should Cancel The Purchase Within | 60 days |
| Number Of Pages | 370 Pages |
| Language | English |
| Item Height | 228 mm |
| Subject | Psychology |
| Publication Year | 1995 |
| Type | Textbook |
| Item Weight | 710 g |
| Item Width | 152 mm |
| Format | Hardcover |
Learning and Memory of Knowledge and Skills Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Durability and Specificity Author(s): Alice F. Healy, Lyle E. Bourne Format: Hardback Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc, United States Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc ISBN-13: 9780803957589, 978-0803957589 Synopsis By analyzing the results of experiments that use a wide variety of training tasks including those that were predominantly perceptual, cognitive, or motoric, this volume answers such questions as: Why do some people forget certain skills faster than others? What kind of training helps people retain new skills longer? Inspired by the work of Harry Bahrick and the concept of "permastore," the contributors explore the Stroop effect, mental calculation, vocabulary retention, contextual interference effects, autobiographical memory, and target detection. They also summarize an investigation on specificity and transfer in choice reaction time tasks. In each chapter, the authors explore how the degree to which reinstatement of training procedures during retention and transfer tests accounts for both durability and specificity of training. Researchers and administrators in education and training will find important implications in this book for enhancing the retention of knowledge of skills. "You have to read this book. Anyone interested in training will want to read it. This book provides the theoretical bases of the acquisition of durable skills for the next decade. It advances and demonstrates a new principle of skill learning that will prove to be as important as the encoding specificity principle and its corollary, the principle of transfer appropriate processing. This new principle is that highly practiced skill learning will be durable when the retention test embodies the procedures employed during acquisition. This principle, and the other important findings reported in this text, will have a great impact on the evolution of memory theory and on the wide range of applications." --Douglas Hermann, University of Maryland
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