| Description |
xii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"Merloyd Lawrence book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index. |
| Contents |
When practice makes imperfect: Overlearned skills -- Whose basics? -- Value of doubt -- Sideways learning -- Can a text teach mindfully? -- Creative distraction: -- Puzzle of "attention" -- Enhancing novelty -- Soft vigilance -- Rethinking attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Myth of delayed gratification: All work and no play -- Turning play into work -- Turning work into play -- 100 what? or the hazards of rote memory: Locking up information -- Keeping information available -- Drawing distinctions -- New look at forgetting: Staying in the present -- Dangers of mindless memory -- Absentminded versus other minded: -- Does memory decline? -- Alternative views of memory and aging -- Illusion of right answers: Hobbled by outcomes -- Actor/observer and other perspectives -- Uncertainty and creative thought -- When right becomes wrong -- Learning as re-imagining the worked - Notes -- Index -- About the author. |
| Subject |
Learning.
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Attention.
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Thought and thinking.
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Cognition.
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| ISBN |
0201488396 |
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