Rabu, 20 April 2011

Domain specific expertise: the case of chess

Chess has been an important task in the cognitive analysis of expertise. de Groot (1978) carried out pioneering studies on the comparison, the chess playing less space of Grand Master of but highly competitive players. He wanted to identify the cognitive skills and strategies, the Grand Master, their opponents exceed enabled. His hypothesis was that master larger width search (by thinking about a larger number of possible moves) and greater depth search (by thinking through further "if l do this, and my opponent does...") (Opportunities) would show. To test this hypothesis, he asked to think master and not master loudly while it moves selected. Masters not opponents qualified thought out finally all possibilities, although both groups showed impressive breadth and depth of searches. Yet somehow, masters selected "better" moves as their opponents.

Chase and Simon the hypothesis on, that the difference between master and not master spatial pattern in learning; Masters "see" the rules of chess pieces in larger and more meaningful chunks and to recognize patterns in different Board. To test this Hypoth ESIS she created configurations of the tracks on schematic chessboards, and asked to study master and not master it to the configurations in a later recognition test can be identified. Sonic patterns were realistic and the rules of chess, fitted, while others identified by assigning positions on the Board randomly identical sets of pieces. Masters and not masters high memory for boards set at random, showed similar significantly exceeded during masters not masters in memory of meaningful patterns. Expertise in chess helps recognize spatial pattern players mean Ingful and remind them simply and well. Highly skilled players excel to think through movements, reflecting its depth and accessible knowledge of the spatial patterns of the games. Differences between players reflect the depth of knowledge of the spatial pattern in the domain of chess. Or maybe you can learn other things such as language learning. If you see the Rosetta Stone Polish and Portuguese Rosetta Stone, you will receive, they look for fun and trial.

Expertise in chess (such as expertise in the natural sciences, mathematics, humanities and Arts) is specific to a domain, so that. Experts are generally not more intelligent, or keep them deeper (Ericsson and Charness, 1994). The fluent reasoning and problem-solving, which characterize experts Tisé result from building a store for domain-specific knowledge (Bransford et al., 1999). Have given this position of knowledge in General, what it means, expertise in spatial thinking? How expertise in spatial might think his domain specific and how night cut off and on all domains where spatial thinking is useful? Is there spatial images, a form of human memory, that spatial thinking of Cognitive psychologists understood realm of the best, we start discussing spatial images and memory.



Related Articles:

0 komentar:

Posting Komentar

Share

Twitter Delicious Facebook Digg Stumbleupon Favorites More