The Transfer of Cognitive Skill

by John R. Anderson and Mark Singley

Does a knowledge of Latin facilitate the learning of computer programming? Does skill in geometry make it easier to learn music? The issue of the transfer of learning from one domain to another is a classic problem in psychology as well as an educational question of great importance, which this ingenious new book sets out to solve through a theory of transfer based on a comprehensive theory of skill acquisition.

The question was first studied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674903404
• ISBN13: 9780674903401
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"