Cognitive Skills and Their Acquisition

John R. Anderson Carnegie-Mellon University

• 1: Mechanisms of Skill Acquisition and the Law of Practice; 2: Knowledge Compilation; 3: Skill in Algebra; 4: The Development of Automatism; 5: Skilled Memory; 6: Acquisition of Problem-Solving Skill; 7: Advice Taking and Knowledge Refinement; 8: The Processes Involved in Designing Software; 9: Mental Models of Physical Mechanisms and their Acquisition; 10: Enriching Formal Knowledge; 11: Analogical Processes in Learning; 12: The Central Role of Learning in Cognition

"...should be of interest to anyone concerned with rigorous models of the organization of complex efficient behaviour, and with changes in the way a task is done as skill is acquired...."—British Journal of Psychology