Learning and Individual Differences
Process, Trait and Content Determinants
Published on 1. January 1999
Book
Hardback
504 pages
978-1-55798-536-1 (ISBN)
Description
Researchers from the United States and seven other countries present research and theory concerning the topic of learning and individual differences. Developments in several areas (cognitive, experimental, instructional, quantitative methodology, differential) provide important tools for understanding both the characteristics of the learner and the characteristics of the learning situation. Specific contributions include theoretical approaches (the Brunswik-symmetry, neurophysiological, personality-ability integration), methodological approaches (profile analysis, speed-accuracy tradeoff, modelling of learning), process approaches (general intelligence, personality, motivation, sensory abilities), and content approaches (heuristic, reasoning, expertise, knowledge structures). Edited open discussions that end each chapter provide an interchange of ideas and criticism - which shows where paradigms collide and cross-fertilization of methods and perspectives can occur.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-536-1 (9781557985361)
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Content
Intelligence and Human Resources - Past, Present and Future; Individual Differences in Learning and Memory - Psychometrics and the Single Case; Minding Our P's and Q's - On Finding Relationships Between Learning and Intelligence; Investigating the Paths Between Working Memory, Intelligence, Knowledge and Complex Problem Solving Performances via Brunswik-Symmetry; Intelligence and Visual and Auditory Information Processing; Individual Differences in Priming - the Roles of Implicit Facilitation From Prior Processing; Learning, Automaticity and Attention - an Individual Differences Approach; The Structure of Ability Profile Patterns - a Multidimensional Scaling Perspective on the Structure of Intellect; Investigating Theoretical Propositions Regarding Mental Abilities - Their Structure, Growth and Influence; Exploiting the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off; Personality and Skill - a Cognitive-Adaptive Framework; Measuring and Understanding G - Experimental and Correlational Approaches; Individual Differences in Motivational Mechanisms - Traits and Skills; Mining on the No-Man's Land Between Intelligence and Personality; Sensory Processes Within the Structure of Human Cognitive Abilities; Searching for Determinants of Superior Performance in Complex Domains; Individual Differences in Reasoning and the Heuristics and Biases Debate; Learner Profiles - Valuing Individual Differences Within Classroom Communities; Traits and Knowlegde as Determinants of Learning and Individual Differences - Putting it all Together.