Learning and memory of knowledge and skills

By Alice F. Healy, Lyle Eugene Bourne

Subjects: Cognitive Science, Lernpsychologie, SCIENCE, Langzeitgedächtnis, Cognitive Psychology, Learning, psychology of, Vaardigheden, Leerpsychologie, Langetermijngeheugen, Long-term memory, Psychology of Learning, PSYCHOLOGY

Description: 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 expl.