1st Edition

Cognitive Skills and Their Acquisition

Edited By John R. Anderson Copyright 1981
    400 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