1st Edition
The Psychology of Expertise Cognitive Research and Empirical Ai
Edited By Robert R. Hoffman
Copyright 1995
410 Pages
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Psychology Press
410 Pages
by
Psychology Press
410 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This volume investigates our ability to capture, and then apply, expertise. In recent years, expertise has come to be regarded as an increasingly valuable and surprisingly elusive resource. Experts, who were the sole active dispensers of certain kinds of knowledge in the days before AI, have themselves become the objects of empirical inquiry, in which their knowledge is elicited and studied -- by... Read more
Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction. R.R. Hoffman, Doing Psychology in an AI Context: A Personal Perspective and Introduction to This Volume. S.B. Regoczei, G. Hirst, Knowledge and Knowledge Acquisition in the Computational Context. Part II: Cognitive Theory and Expertise. N.J. Cooke, Modeling Human Expertise in Expert Systems. R.M. Schumacher, M.P. Czerwinski, Mental Models and the Acquisition of Expert Knowledge. J.F. Sowa, Conceptual Analysis as a Basis for Knowledge Acquisition. Part III: Knowledge Elicitation Methods. S.E. Gordon, Implications of Cognitive Theory for Knowledge Acquisition. K.M. Ford, J.R. Adams-Webber, Knowledge Acquisition and Constructivist Epistemology. D.S. Prerau, M.R. Adler, A.S. Gunderson, Eliciting and Using Experiential Knowledge and General Expertise. K.L. McGraw, Managing and Documenting the Knowledge Acquisition Process. G.A. Klein, Using Knowledge Engineering to Preserve Corporate Memory. Part IV: Psychological Research on Expertise. R.J. Sternberg, P.A. Frensch, On Being an Expert: A Cost-Benefit Analysis. F.S. Bellezza, Mnemonics and Expert Knowledge: Mental Cuing. S.J. Ceci, A. Ruiz, The Role of General Ability in Cognitive Complexity: A Case Study of Expertise. Part V: Expert-Novice Differences and the Development of Expertise. M. Foley, A. Hart, Expert-Novice Differences and Knowledge Elicitation. R. Mack, J. Burdett Robinson, When Novices Elicit Knowledge: Question Asking in Designing, Evaluating, and Learning to Use Software. R.L. Campbell, N.R. Brown, L.A. DiBello, The Programmer's Burden: Developing Expertise in Programming. Part VI: Overview. S. Regoczei, The Psychology of Expertise and Knowledge Acquisition: Comments on the Chapters in This Volume. Appendices: Bibliography: Psychological Theory and Reviews. Bibliography: Empirical and Experimental Investigations of Expertise. Bibliography: Knowledge Elicitation. Bibliography: Automated Knowledge Elicitation, Representation, and Instantiation ("Knowledge Acquisition"). Bibliography: Expertise in Programming. Bibliography: AI Theory, Philosophy, and Reviews of Expert Systems. Bibliography: Applications of Expert Systems. Bibliography: Programming, Building, and Verifying Expert Systems.
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Robert R. Hoffman






