The Acquisition and Retention of Knowledge: A Cognitive View By David Paul Ausubel ISBN: 9780792365051 Published: 2000 Number of Pages: 212 Binding: Hardcover

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Springer Description: In 1963 an initial attempt was made in my The Psychology of Meaningful Verbal Learning to present a cognitive theory of meaningful as opposed to rote verbal learning. It was based on the proposition that the acquisition and retention of knowl­ edge (particularly of verbal knowledge as, for example, in school, or subject-matter learning) is the product of an active, integrative, interactional process between instructional material (subject matter) and relevant ideas in the leamer's cognitive structure to which the new ideas are relatable in particular ways. This book is a full-scale revision of my 1963 monograph, The Psychology of Meaningful Verbal Learning, in the sense that it addresses the major aforementioned and hitherto unmet goals by providing for an expansion, clarification, differentiation, and sharper focusing of the principal psychological variables and processes involved in meaningful learning and retention, i.e., for their interrelationships and interactions leading to the generation of new meanings in the individual learner. The preparation of this new monograph was largely necessitated by the virtual collapse of the neobe­ havioristic theoretical orientation to learning during the previous forty years; and by the meteoric rise in the seventies and beyond of constructivist approaches to learning theory.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  00135007
   - LC control Number: 00135007

National Bibliography Number
   - Source: bnb: GBA074693: GBA0-74693

International Standard Book Number: 0792365054 (alk. paper): 0792365054 (hardbound): 0792365054 :

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: LB1051
   - Item number: .A7468 2000

Subject Category Code
   - Source: lcco: BF

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 21
   - Classification number: 153.1/5
   - Classification number: 153.15

Other Classification Number
   - Classification number: 1522

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Ausubel, David P.
   - Personal name: Ausubel, David Paul
   - Personal name: Ausubel, David Paul.

Title Statement
   - Title: The acquisition and retention of knowledge :
   - Remainder of title: a cognitive view /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: by David P. Ausubel
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: by David P. Ausubel.

Edition Statement: [Rev. ed.]

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Boston :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Dordrecht :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Dordrect ;
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: London :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Kluwer Academic,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2000
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2000.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2000.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xvi, 212 p. :
   - Extent: xvi, 212 p. ;
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 25 cm
   - Dimensions: 25 cm.

General Note: "Full scale revision of The Psychology of meaningful verbal learning"--Pref: "Full scale revision of The Psychology of meaningful verbal learning"--Pref.: Previous ed.: published as The psychology of meaningful verbal learning. S.l : s.n., 1963.: Revised edition of: "The psychology of meaningful verbal learning" (New York, 1963).

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Cognition
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Learning, Psychology of
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Learning, Psychology of.

Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Ausubel, David P.
   - Personal name: Ausubel, David Paul.
   - Title of a work: Psychology of meaningful verbal learning
   - Title of a work: Psychology of meaningful verbal learning.