Research Catalog

Title

The acquisition and retention of knowledge : a cognitive view / by David P. Ausubel.

Author

Ausubel, David Paul.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000.

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Details

Description

xvi, 212 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This is a college-level textbook that provides a comprehensive and credible theory of how humans can learn and retain substantial and growing bodies of potentially meaningful, organized subject-matter knowledge on an extended, long-term basis. It identified explicitly the cognitive conditions under which such learning and retention occur, and indicates how they are influenced by relevant cognitive structure, frequency, mental "set" and motivational variables, and most important, by the probable underlying functional cognitive processes involved."--Jacket.

Subject

Learning, Psychology of

Note

• "Full scale revision of The Psychology of meaningful verbal learning"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preview of assimilation theory of meaningful learning and retention -- Scope and objectives -- Preview of basic concepts of meaningful reception learning and retention -- The nature of meaning and meaningful learning -- Assimilation theory in meaningful learning and retention processes -- The effects of cognitive structure variables on the acquisition, retention, and transferability of knowledge -- Practice and motivational factors in meaningful learning and retention.

ISBN

0792365054 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00135007^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library