Routledge The Nature of Expertise

Product Description Due largely to developments made in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology during the past two decades, expertise has become an important subject for scholarly investigations. The Nature of Expertise displays the variety of domains and human activities to which the study of expertise has been applied, and reflects growing attention on learning and the acquisition of expertise. Applying approaches influenced by such disciplines as cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, the contributors discuss those conditions that enhance and those that limit the development of high levels of cognitive skill. Review "...the volume is an important contribution to our understanding of the nature of expertise and should be standard reading for scholars in the field as well as lay people wishing to learn about this timely topic. Students of individual differences will find among the chapters solid experimental work and well reasoned theories."—Personality and Individual Differences "...[a] substantial contribution as the first important collection of research on this topic...The collection of papers in this volume not only represents a range of approaches, but also captures expert performance in a variety of problem domains."—Contemporary Psychology