Learning and Memory of Knowledge and Skills: Durability and Specificity / Edition 1

by Alice F. Healy, Lyle E. Bourne

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803957589
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/08/1994
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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 Mc Namara 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