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1 online resource (382 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 The Acquisition of Expert Performance: An Introduction to Some of the Issues; 2 The Role of Practice and Coaching in Entrepreneurial Skill Domains: An International Comparison of Life-Span Chess Skill Acquisition; 3 Deliberate Practice in Sports: What Is It Anyway?; 4 The Acquisition of Musical Performance Expertise: Deconstructing the ""Talent"" Account of Individual Differences in Musical Expressivity; 5 The Acquisition of Medical Expertise in Complex Dynamic Environments |
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6 Perceptual and Memory Processes in the Acquisition of Expert Performance: The EPAM Model7 Expertise in Reading; 8 Creative Expertise: A Life-Span Developmental Perspective; 9 The Childhoods and Early Lives of Geniuses: Combining Psychological and Biographical Evidence; 10 The Rage to Master: The Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts; 11 Changing the Agency for Learning: Acquiring Expert Performance; 12 Expert Performance and the History of Science; 13 Capturing Expertise in Sports; 14 Laboratory Experimentation on the Genesis of Expertise; 15 Costs of Expertise; Author Index |
| Summary |
Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and games have always been an object of fascination to both scientists and lay people. Only during the last 20 years have scientists studied these levels of performance in the laboratory in order to identify their mediating mechanisms. Contrary to the common belief that innate talents are the critical factors for exceptional performance, investigators have found that acquired skills, knowledge, and physiological adaptations in response to intense practice are the primary mechanisms, mediating the highest levels |
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Subject Index |
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Print version record |
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Expertise.
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Excellence.
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Gifted persons.
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gifted (people)
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Excellence
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Expertise
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Gifted persons
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317779063 |
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1317779061 |
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