The acquisition and retention of knowledge : a cognitive view / by David P. Ausubel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ausubel, David Paul.

Contributor:

Ausubel, David Paul.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning, Psychology of.

Physical Description:

xvi, 212 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrect ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Summary:

This is a college-level textbook that provides a comprehensive and credible theory of how humans can learn and retain substantial and growing bodies of potentially meaningful, organized subject-matter knowledge on an extended, long-term basis. It identifies explicitly the cognitive conditions under which such learning and retention occurs, and indicates how they are influenced by relevant cognitive structure, frequency, mental set' and motivational variables, and, most importantly, by the probable underlying functional cognitive processes involved.

Notes:

"Full scale revision of The Psychology of meaningful verbal learning"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Related Work:

Ausubel, David Paul. Psychology of meaningful verbal learning.

ISBN:

0792365054

OCLC:

44775362