Learning and Memory of Knowledge and Skills : Durability and Specificity

by Alice F. Healy

• ISBN13: 9780803957596
• ISBN10: 0803957599
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

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 explores the extent to which reinstatement of training procedures during retention and transfer tests accounts for both durability and specificity of training.

Table of Contents

Preface

Durability and Specificity of Facts and Skill - Alice F Healy et al

Optimizing the Long-Term Retention of Skills - William R Marmie and Alice F Healy

The Long-Term Retention of a Complex Skill

Part-Whole Training of Tank Gunner Simulation Exercises - David W Fendrich et al

The Contribution of Procedural Reinstatement to Implicit and Explicit Memory Effects in a Motor Task - Vivian I Schneider et al

The Effects of Contextual Interference on the Acquisition and Retention of Logical Rules - Danielle S McNamara and Alice F Healy

A Generation Advantage for Multiplication Skill Training and Nonword Vocabulary Acquisition - William T Wittman and Alice F Healy

A Long-Term Retention Advantage for Spatial Information Learned Naturally and in the Laboratory - John J Skowronski et al

Long-Term Performance in Autobiographical Event Dating

Patterns of Accuracy and Error Across a Two-and-a-Half Year Time Span - Deborah M Clawson et al

Training and Retention of the Classic Stroop Task

Specificity of Practice Effects - Timothy C Rickard and Lyle E Bourne Jr

An Identical Elements Model of Basic Arithmetic Skills - Janet D Proctor and Alice F Healy

Acquisition and Retention of Skilled Letter Detection - Robert W Proctor and Addie Dutta

Acquisition and Transfer of Response-Selection Skill - Rodney J Vogl and Charles P Thompson

The Specificity and Durability of Rajan's Memory