1st Edition

Cognitive Skills and Their Acquisition

Edited By John R. Anderson Copyright 1981
400 Pages
by Psychology Press

384 Pages
by Psychology Press

First published in 1981. This book is a collection of the papers presented at the Sixteenth Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, held in May 1980.

1: Mechanisms of Skill Acquisition and the Law of Practice; 2: Knowledge Compilation; 3: Skill in Algebra; 4: The Development of Automatism; 5: Skilled Memory; 6: Acquisition of Problem-Solving Skill; 7: Advice Taking and Knowledge Refinement; 8: The Processes Involved in Designing Software; 9: Mental Models of Physical Mechanisms and their Acquisition; 10: Enriching Formal Knowledge; 11: Analogical Processes in Learning; 12: The Central Role of Learning in Cognition

Biography

John R. Anderson Carnegie-Mellon University

"...should be of interest to anyone concerned with rigorous models of the organization of complex efficient behaviour, and with changes in the way a task is done as skill is acquired...."
British Journal of Psychology