Research Catalog

Title

Learning and memory of knowledge and skills : durability and specificity / edited by Alice F. Healy, Lyle E. Bourne, Jr.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publicatins, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xiv, 358 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Learning, Psychology of
• Long-term memory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Preface: Durability and Specificity of Knowledge and Skills / Alice F. Healy and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr. -- 1. Optimizing the Long-Term Retention of Skills / Alice F. Healy, Cheri L. King, Deborah M. Clawson, Grant P. Sinclair, Timothy C. Rickard, Robert J. Crutcher, K. Anders Ericsson and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr. -- 2. The Long-Term Retention of a Complex Skill / William R. Marmie and Alice F. Healy -- 3. The Contribution of Procedural Reinstatement to Implicit and Explicit Memory Effects in a Motor Task / David W. Fendrich, Antoinette T. Gesi, Alice F. Healy and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr. -- 4. The Effects of Contextual Interference on the Acquisition and Retention of Logical Rules / Vivian I. Schneider, Alice F. Healy, K. Anders Ericsson and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr. -- 5. A Generation Advantage for Multiplication Skill Training and Nonword Vocabulary Acquisition / Danielle S. McNamara and Alice F. Healy.
• 6. A Long-Term Retention Advantage for Spatial Information Learned Naturally and in the Laboratory / William T. Wittman and Alice F. Healy -- 7. Long-Term Performance in Autobiographical Event Dating: Patterns of Accuracy and Error Across a Two-and-a-Half-Year Time Span / John J. Skowronski, Andrew L. Betz, Charles P. Thompson and Steen F. Larsen -- 8. Training and Retention of the Classic Stroop Task: Specificity of Practice Effects / Deborah M. Clawson, Cheri L. King, Alice F. Healy and K. Anders Ericsson -- 9. An Identical-Elements Model of Basic Arithmetic Skills / Timothy C. Rickard and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr. -- 10. Acquisition and Retention of Skilled Letter Detection / Janet D. Proctor and Alice F. Healy -- 11. Acquisition and Transfer of Response Selection Skill / Robert W. Proctor and Addie Dutta -- 12. The Specificity and Durability of Rajan's Memory / Rodney J. Vogl and Charles P. Thompson.

ISBN

• 0803957580 (hard)
• 0803957599 (pbk.)

LCCN

94031046

OCLC

• 31078712
• ocm31078712

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries