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1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages) : illustrations |
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Optimizing the long-term retention of skills / Alice F. Healy [and others] -- The long-term retention of a complex skill / William R. Marmie, Alice F. Healy -- The contribution of procedural reinstatement to implicit and explicit memory effects in a motor task / David W. Fendrich [and others] -- The effects of contextual interference on the acquisition and retention of logical rules / Vivian I. Schneider [and others] -- A generation advantage for multiplication skill training and nonword vocabulary acquisition / Danielle S. McNamara, Alice F. Healy -- A long-term retention advantage for spatial information learned naturally and in the laboratory / William T. Wittman, Alice F. Healy -- Long-term performance in autobiographical event dating : patterns of accuracy and error across a two-and-a-half-year time span / John J. Skowronski [and others] -- Training and retention of the classic stroop task : specificity of practice effects / Deborah M. Clawson [and others] |
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An identical-elements model of basic arithmetic skills / Timothy C. Rickard, Lyle E. Bourne, Jr. -- Acquisition and retention of skilled letter detection / Janet D. Proctor, Alice F. Healy -- Acquisition and transfer of response selection skill / Robert W. Proctor, Addie Dutta -- The specificity and durability of Rajan's memory / Rodney J. Vogl, Charles P. Thompson |
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Why do people forget some skills faster than others? What kind of training is most effective at getting people to retain new skills over a longer period of time? Cognitive psychologists address these questions in this volume by analyzing the results of experiments which used a wide variety of perceptual, cognitive and motoric training tasks. Studies reported on include: the Stroop effect; mental calculation; vocabulary retention; contextual interference effects; autobiographical memory; target detection; and specificity and transfer in choice reaction time tasks. Each chapter expl |
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Learning Related to Memory (Mental processes) |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Long-term memory.
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Learning, Psychology of.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Learning, Psychology of
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Long-term memory
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Lernpsychologie
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Langzeitgedächtnis
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Langetermijngeheugen.
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Vaardigheden.
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Leerpsychologie.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Healy, Alice F.
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Bourne, Lyle Eugene, Jr., 1932-
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| LC no. |
94031046 |
| ISBN |
9781452254999 |
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1452254990 |
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9781483326887 |
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1483326888 |
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1322421633 |
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9781322421636 |
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