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Toward a General Theory of Expertise - Prospects and Limits (Hardcover, New)
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Toward a General Theory of Expertise - Prospects and Limits (Hardcover, New)
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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 talent. Confronted with universal limits of human
information processing concerning memory capacity and speed of
processing, expert performers are found to be able to acquire
similar types of skills to circumvent these limits. General
findings on expertise are systematized to lay the foundation of a
general theory of expertise. In this book, many of the world's
foremost scientists studying expert performance in specific domains
of expertise review the state-of-the-art knowledge about expertise
in these domains with the goal of identifying characteristics of
expert performance that can be generalized across many different
areas of expertise. These papers provide a comprehensive summary of
general methods to study expertise and the current knowledge about
expertise in chess, physics, medicine, sports, performing arts,
music, writing, and decision-making. Most importantly, they reveal
the existence of many general characteristics of expertise.
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