Contributions

  • Healy, Alice F. - Contributor
  • Bourne, Lyle Eugene, 1932- - Contributor

Publication

1995 - Sage Publicatins, Thousand Oaks, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

89,500 words, Guess

Page Count

358 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2241864
  • Goodreads4591002

Classifications

  • DDC153.1
  • LCCBF378.L65 L43 1995

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Learning and memory of knowledge and skills: durability and specificitySage Publicatins1995-01-01

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