The Acquisition and Retention of Knowledge: A Cognitive View
By: by David P. Ausubel
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9789048155361; 9789401594547
Subjects: Philosophy (General); Artificial intelligence; Consciousness; Psycholinguistics
Description: 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.
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