During the past twenty years, our knowledge about expertise has dramatically increased. Laboratory analyses of chessmasters, experts in physics, medicine, international-level musicians, athletes, writers, and performance artists have allowed us to carefully examine the cognitive processes mediating outstanding performance in very diverse areas of expertise. These analyses have shown that expert performance is primarily a reflection of acquired skill resulting from the accumulation of domain-specific knowledge and methods during many years of training and practice rather than special innate...
During the past twenty years, our knowledge about expertise has dramatically increased. Laboratory analyses of chessmasters, experts in physics, medic...
During the past twenty years, our knowledge about expertise has dramatically increased. Laboratory analyses of chessmasters, experts in physics, medicine, international-level musicians, athletes, writers, and performance artists have allowed us to carefully examine the cognitive processes mediating outstanding performance in very diverse areas of expertise. These analyses have shown that expert performance is primarily a reflection of acquired skill resulting from the accumulation of domain-specific knowledge and methods during many years of training and practice rather than special innate...
During the past twenty years, our knowledge about expertise has dramatically increased. Laboratory analyses of chessmasters, experts in physics, medic...
The handbook is an impressive collection of research studies and theories provided by knowledgeable contributors on life-span development from conception to old age."--Anthropology and Aging Quarterly
The doubling of our average life span since the turn of the 20th century is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important changes in human existence. This definitive text is the only volume to fully address, through a multidisciplinary perspective, the biological, cognitive, and psychological development that occurs from infancy through old age, and how the...
The handbook is an impressive collection of research studies and theories provided by knowledgeable contributors on life-span development from conc...
Gegenwart und Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft sind durch einen immer hoheren Anteil alter und sehr alter Menschen gepragt. Die Berliner Altersstudie (BASE) ist weltweit einzigartig in der Breite des Spektrums der beteiligten Wissenschaften und der sowohl disziplinar als auch interdisziplinar bestimmten Untersuchungsgebiete, in dem Fokus auf das hohe Alter (70- bis uber 100-Jahrige) und in dem empirischen Bezug auf eine reprasentativ ausgewahlte Stadtbevolkerung. Der Band berichtet unter anderem uber geistige Leistungsfahigkeit, Personlichkeit und soziale Beziehungen im Alter, uber korperliche...
Gegenwart und Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft sind durch einen immer hoheren Anteil alter und sehr alter Menschen gepragt. Die Berliner Altersstudie (BAS...
