Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious

by Arthur S. Reber

Book Overview

In this new volume in the Oxford Psychology Series, the author presents a highly readable account of the cognitive unconscious, focusing in particular on the problem of implicit learning. Implicit learning is defined as the acquisition of knowledge that takes place independently of the conscious attempts to learn and largely in the absence of explicit knowledge about what was acquired. One of the core assumptions of this argument is that implicit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195059425
• ISBN13: 9780195059427
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"