Cognitive Skills and Their Acquisition

by John R. Anderson (Editor)

Overview

First published in 1981. This book is a collection of the papers presented at the Sixteenth Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, held in May 1980.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135830953
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2013
Series:	Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

John R. Anderson Carnegie-Mellon University

Table of Contents

1: Mechanisms of Skill Acquisition and the Law of Practice; 2: Knowledge Compilation; 3: Skill in Algebra; 4: The Development of Automatism; 5: Skilled Memory; 6: Acquisition of Problem-Solving Skill; 7: Advice Taking and Knowledge Refinement; 8: The Processes Involved in Designing Software; 9: Mental Models of Physical Mechanisms and their Acquisition; 10: Enriching Formal Knowledge; 11: Analogical Processes in Learning; 12: The Central Role of Learning in Cognition

Editorial Reviews

"...should be of interest to anyone concerned with rigorous models of the organization of complex efficient behaviour, and with changes in the way a task is done as skill is acquired...."
—British Journal of Psychology

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