The acquisition and retention of knowledge : a cognitive view /

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...

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Main Author: Ausubel, David Paul
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Item Description:"Full scale revision of The Psychology of meaningful verbal learning"--Preface.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 212 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789401594547 (electronic bk.)
9401594546 (electronic bk.)