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Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

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ISBN-10: 0521600812

ISBN-13: 9780521600811

Edition: 2006

Authors: K. Anders Ericsson, Neil Charness, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert R. Hoffman

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This is the first handbook where the world's foremost `experts on expertise review our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of expertise is also studied by retrospective interviews and the daily lives of experts are studied with diaries. In 15 major domains of expertise, the leading researchers summarize our knowledge on the structure and acquisition of expert skill and knowledge…    
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Book details

List price: $89.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 918
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.498
Language: English

Robert R. Hoffman is Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition at the University of West Florida.

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction and Perspective
An Introduction to The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance: Its Development, Organization, and Content
Two Approaches to the Study of Experts' Characteristics
Expertise, Talent, and Social Encouragement
Overview of Approaches to the Study of Expertise - Brief Historical Accounts of Theories and Methods
Studies of Expertise from Psychological Perspectives
Educators and Expertise: A Brief History of Theories and Models
Expert Systems: A Perspective from Computer Science
Professionalization, Scientific Expertise, and Elitism: A Sociological Perspective
Methods for Studying the Structure of Expertise
Observation of Work Practices in Natural Settings
Methods for Studying the Structure of Expertise: Psychometric Approaches
Laboratory Methods for Assessing Experts' and Novices' Knowledge
Task Analysis
Eliciting and Representing the Knowledge of Experts
Protocol Analysis and Expert Thought: Concurrent Verbalizations of Thinking during Experts' Performance on Representative Tasks
Simulation for Performance and Training
Methods for Studying the Acquisition and Maintenance of Expertise
Laboratory Studies of Training, Skill Acquisition, and Retention of Performance
Retrospective Interviews in the Study of Expertise and Expert Performance
Time Budgets, Diaries, and Analyses of Concurrent Practice Activities
Historiometric Methods
Domains of Expertise
Professional Domains
Expertise in Medicine and Surgery
Expertise and Transportation
Expertise in Software Design
Professional Writing Expertise
Professional Judgments and "Naturalistic Decision Making"
Decision-Making Expertise
The Making of a Dream Team: When Expert Teams Do Best
Arts, Sports, & Motor Skills
Music
Expert Performance in Sport: A Cognitive Perspective
Artistic Performance: Acting, Ballet, and Contemporary Dance
Perceptual-Motor Expertise
Games and Other Types of Expertise
Expertise in Chess
Exceptional Memory
Mathematical Expertise
Expertise in History
Generalizable Mechanisms Mediating Expertise and General Issues
A Merging Theory of Expertise and Intelligence
Tacit Knowledge, Practical Intelligence, and Expertise
Expertise and Situation Awareness
Brain Changes in the Development of Expertise: Neuroanatomical and Neurophysiological Evidence about Skill-Based Adaptations
The Influence of Experience and Deliberate Practice on the Development of Superior Expert Performance
Development and Adaptation of Expertise: The Role of Self-Regulatory Processes and Beliefs
Aging and Expertise
Social and Sociological Factors in the Development of Expertise
Modes of Expertise in Creative Thinking: Evidence from Case Studies
Author Index
Subject Index