Learning and Individual Differences: Process, Trait and Content Determinants - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557985367 ISBN 13: 9781557985361

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 1999

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557985367
• ISBN 13: 9781557985361
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Ackerman Phillip L., Kyllonen Patrick C., Roberts Richard D.