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.

Psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Psychology.

Psychology, Experimental.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2005]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"The primary purpose of this volume is to bring together contributions by some of the most significant contemporary experimental psychologists working in cognition, including the areas of learning, memory, information processing, discourse, and knowledge representation. They share their perspectives and their recent research findings so that these ideas and results can be integrated for use by practitioners in the field, including those in training, education, and testing. Such integration should also be of value to students and other researchers concerned with the core issues of human cognition. A secondary purpose of this volume is to serve as a triple Festschrift in honor of three distinguished faculty members from the University of Colorado (CU) who are recently retired from teaching at the university: Lyle Bourne, Jr., Walter Kintsch, and Thomas Landauer. All three of these individuals throughout their careers have done basic research on a wide range of topics in experimental cognitive psychology. In recent years all three have made important contributions to the understanding of learning, memory, information processing, discourse, and knowledge representation, and findings from these studies have direct practical implications for training, education, and testing. Overall, the study of cognition has experienced rapid growth in the last decade. This topic is fundamental both to the science of psychology and to its applications to real-world problems. However, there has traditionally been a huge gap between the basic research findings in this area and practice in the field. There, thus, remains a crucial need to bridge from the laboratory to the real world. This volume brings together individuals who not only have a distinguished record as experimental psychologists but also have tried to show how their findings can be applied in the field"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

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.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2005 dcunns.

ISBN:

1591471834

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