Research Catalog

Title

The Psychology of expertise : cognitive research and empirical AI / Robert R. Hoffman, editor.

Publication

New York : Springer-Verlag, [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors

Hoffman, Robert R.

Description

xiv, 395 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Congress
• Expertise > Research > Methodology > Congresses
• Cognition
• Knowledge acquisition (Expert systems) > Congresses
• Expertise > Congresses
• Expert Systems
• Research
• Expert systems (Computer science) > Congresses
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive science > Congresses
• Artificial intelligence > Congresses

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• Based on papers presented at a conference on Expert Systems and the Psychology of Expertise, held at Adelphi University on May 5, 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Doing Psychology in an AI Context: A Personal Perspective and Introduction to This Volume / Robert R. Hoffman. 2. Knowledge and Knowledge Acquisition in the Computational Context / Stephen B. Regoczei and Graeme Hirst -- Pt. II. Cognitive Theory and Expertise. 3. Modeling Human Expertise in Expert Systems / Nancy J. Cooke. 4. Mental Models and the Acquisition of Expert Knowledge / Robert M. Schumacher and Mary P. Czerwinski. 5. Conceptual Analysis as a Basis for Knowledge Acquisition / John F. Sowa -- Pt. III. Knowledge Elicitation Methods. 6. Implications of Cognitive Theory for Knowledge Acquisition / Sallie E. Gordon. 7. Knowledge Acquisition and Constructivist Epistemology / Kenneth M. Ford and Jack R. Adams-Webber. 8. Eliciting and Using Experiential Knowledge and General Expertise / David S. Prerau, Mark R. Adler and Alan S. Gunderson. 9. Managing and Documenting the Knowledge Acquisition Process / Karen L. McGraw.
• 10. Using Knowledge Engineering to Preserve Corporate Memory / Gary A. Klein -- Pt. IV. Psychological Research on Expertise. 11. On Being an Expert: A Cost-Benefit Analysis / Robert J. Sternberg and Peter A. Frensch. 12. Mnemonics and Expert Knowledge: Mental Cuing / Francis S. Bellezza. 13. The Role of General Ability in Cognitive Complexity: A Case Study of Expertise / Stephen J. Ceci and Ana Ruiz -- Pt. V. Expert-Novice Differences and the Development of Expertise. 14. Expert-Novice Differences and Knowledge Elicitation / Micheal Foley and Anna Hart. 15. When Novices Elicit Knowledge: Question Asking in Designing, Evaluating, and Learning to Use Software / Robert Mack and Jill Burdett Robinson. 16. The Programmer's Burden: Developing Expertise in Programming / Robert L. Campbell, Norman R. Brown and Lia A. DiBello -- Pt. VI. Overview. 17. The Psychology of Expertise and Knowledge Acquisition: Comments on the Chapters in This Volume / Stephen Regoczei.
• Appendix A. Bibliography: Psychological Theory and Reviews -- Appendix B. Bibliography: Empirical and Experimental Investigations of Expertise -- Appendix C. Bibliography: Knowledge Elicitation -- Appendix D. Bibliography: Automated Knowledge Elicitation, Representation, and Instantiation ("Knowledge Acquisition") -- Appendix E. Bibliography: Expertise in Programming -- Appendix F. Bibliography: AI Theory, Philosophy, and Reviews of Expert Systems -- Appendix G. Bibliography: Applications of Expert Systems -- Appendix H. Bibliography: Programming, Building, and Verifying Expert Systems.

ISBN

• 0387976868 (Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg : acid-free paper)
• 3540976868 (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York : acid-free paper)

LCCN

91033159

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries