Principles of Training
The Commonwealth and International Library: Psychology Division
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1965
- Latest edition
- Author: D. H. Holding
- Editor: G. P. Meredith
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Principles of Training provides insight into the different variables presented by training tasks. It presents a wide sample of experimental data to reveal to the intending practitioner of training—whether in industry, in sport, in the defense services or other fields—that awareness of experimental findings must be paralleled by competence in analyzing tasks in order to determine how and where any particular principles may reasonably be applied. The book begins with an introductory chapter on the evaluation of training, experiments on training, limitations of training, and training problems. This is followed by separate chapters that discuss how trainers can influence the course of learning by manipulating knowledge of results; methods for minimizing errors in early learning; visual training methods; the use of words and actions in training; and the importance of practice in learning. Subsequent chapters cover the transfer of training; automatic teaching, or ""programmed instruction""; and recommendations for trainers.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Editor's Foreword
1. Introduction
Evaluation of Training
Experiments on Training
Limitations of Training
Training Problems
Types of Task
Skilled Behavior
2. Knowledge of Results
Removing Feedback
Action and Learning Feedback
Information and Incentive
A Classification
Intrinsic or Artificial
Concurrent or Terminal
Immediate or Delayed
Verbal or Non-Verbal
Separate or Accumulated
Summary
3. Guidance
Restricting Alternatives
Types of Guidance
Animal Work
Human Maze Learning
Mazes and Forced-Response
Adjustive Skills
Graded Movements
Knowledge of Alternatives
Summary
4. Visual Methods
Visual Guidance
Changes in Display
Visual Magnification
Imitation
Static Visual Aids
Moving Films
Summary
5. Words and Actions
Verbal and Motor Learning
Verbal and Motor Behavior
Instructions
Pre-differentiation
Verbal Pre-training
Verbal Guidance and Hints
Summary
6. Practice
Learning Curves
Speed and Accuracy
Part and Whole Methods
Progression
Massed and Spaced Practice
Residual Effects
Mental Practice
Summary
7. Transfer of Training
Sameness and Difference
Relations between Tasks
Negative Transfer
Long-Term Effects
Task Difficulty
Transfer of Principles
Summary
8. Programmed Learning
Teaching Machines
Motor Learning
Linear Programs
Program Characteristics
Branching Programs
Comparison of Methods
Evaluation
Summary
9. Recommendations
General
Specific
Further Reading
References and Author Index
Subject Index
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 22, 2013
- Language: English
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