Experimental cognitive psychology and its applications / edited by Alice F. Healy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Healy, Alice F.

Series:

Decade of behavior

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive psychology.

Psychology, Experimental.

Physical Description:

xxii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2005]

Summary:

- Target Audience: Experimental cognitive psychologists, students and researchers, concerned with the core issues of human cognition.- Secondary Audience: Practitioners in the field including those in training, education, and testing.- Similar APA titles: "Learning, Motivation, and Cognition.- Edited by Alice F. Healy, PhD, is affiliated with the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado (Boulder, CO).- The study of cognition has experienced rapid growth in the last decade. Chapters cover areas of cognitive psychological research including learning memory, information processing, discourse, and knowledge representation.- Aims to bridge this gap by bringing together a group of distinguished experimental psychologists who show how their findings can be applied in daily life.- Bookstore and Library Market: Experimental psychology

Contents:

1 Domain-Specific Knowledge in Intellectual Skills: A Symposium in Honor of Lyle E. Bourne, Jr. / Ronald T. Kellogg, Alinda Friedman, Peder Johnson, Timothy C. Rickard 3

2 Walter Kintsch: A Psychology Beyond Words / Charles A. Weaver III, Janice M. Keenan, Walter Perrig, Vimla Patel 17

3 Cherchez Le Quadrant Pasteur! A Symposium in Honor of Tom Landauer / Lynn Streeter, Darrell Laham, Susan Dumais, Ernst Z. Rothkopf 31

Part II Learning 45

4 How Should a Theory of Learning and Cognition Inform Instruction? / John R. Anderson, Scott Douglass, Yulin Qin 47

5 The Procedural Reinstatement Principle: Studies on Training, Retention, and Transfer / Alice F. Healy, Erica L. Wohldmann, Lyle E. Bourne, Jr. 59

6 Material Appropriate Difficulty: A Framework for Determining When Difficulty Is Desirable for Improving Learning / Mark A. McDaniel, Gilles O. Einstein 73

Part III Memory 87

7 The Long-Term Neglect of Long-Term Memory: Reasons and Remedies / Harry P. Bahrick 89

8 Rich False Memories: The Royal Road to Success / Elizabeth F. Loftus, Daniel M. Bernstein 101

9 The Functionalist Agenda in Memory Research / James S. Nairne 115

Part IV Information Processing 127

10 Attention, Automaticity, and Executive Control / Gordon D. Logan 129

11 Roles of Task-Defined Associations and Reference Frames in Spatial Stimulus-Response Compatibility / Robert W. Proctor, Kim-Phuong L. Vu 141

Part V Discourse 155

12 Watching the Brain Comprehend Discourse / Morton Ann Gernsbacher, David A. Robertson 157

13 Learning to Construct and Integrate / Susan R. Goldman, David M. Bloome 169

14 Computerized Learning Environments That Incorporate Research in Discourse Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computational Linguistics / Arthur C. Graesser, Xiangen Hu, Danielle S. McNamara 183

Part VI Knowledge Representation 195

15 On Quantifying and Characterizing Human Knowledge / Raymond S. Nickerson 197

16 Finding Meaning in Psychology / Roger W. Schvaneveldt 211

17 Cultural Explorations of the Nature of Intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko 225

18 Word Association Spaces for Predicting Semantic Similarity Effects in Episodic Memory / Mark Steyvers, Richard M. Shiffrin, Douglas L. Nelson 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1591471834

OCLC:

54974408