Implicit learning and tacit knowledge : an essay on the cognitive unconscious

Author(s)

• Reber, Arthur S.

Bibliographic Information

Implicit learning and tacit knowledge : an essay on the cognitive unconscious

Arthur S. Reber

（Oxford psychology series, no. 19）

Oxford University Press : Clarendon Press, 1996

• : pbk

Note

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1996"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-181) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Implicit knowledge, a term coined by Reber in 1965, is acquired independent of conscious attempts to learn, and generally without the capacity to communicate what has been acquired. One of the core assumptions of this argument is that implicit learning is a fundamental process, one that lies at the very heart of the adaptive behavioural repertoire of every complex organism. This is a highly readable account of the cognitive unconscious, focusing in particular on the problem of implicit learning.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introductory Remarks
• 1.1 On Learning
• 1.2 On Evolution
• 1.3 On Measuring the Contents of Consciousness
• 1.4 On Intelligence and Instruction
• 1.5 A Note on Terminology
• 1.6 A Rapid Historical Overview
• 1.7 Summary
• 1.8 A Personal Aside
• 2. Implicit Cognition: The Data Base
• 2.1 The Polarity Fallacy
• 2.2 On the Primacy of the Implicit
• 2.3 On Functionalism
• 2.4 Some Assumptions
• 2.5 Experimental Procedures
• 2.6 Empirical Studies of Implicit Learning
• 2.7 Methodological Issues in Implicit and Explicit Learning
• 3. Evolutionary Considerations: The Primacy of the Implicit
• 3.1 Some Introductory Remarks
• 3.2 The Evolutionist's Line
• 3.3 An Evolutionary Context for the Cognitive Unconscious
• 3.4 Hypothesized Characteristics of Implicit Systems
• 4. Implicit Issues: Some Extensions and Some Speculations
• 4.1 Implicit Learning and/or Implicit Memory
• 4.2 On Rules
• 4.3 Knowledge Representation
• 4.4 On Consciousness
• 4.5 Prediction and Generation of Events
• 4.6 Nativism and Empiricism
• 4.7 Afterwords
• 4.8 In Summary

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Details

• NCID: BA3917644X
• ISBN:
  • 019510658X
• LCCN: 92049920
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 188 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 141.3
  • LCC : BF319.5.I45
  • NLM : BF 315 R291i
  • DC20 : 153.1/5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Implicit learning
  • MESH : Cognition
  • MESH : Unconscious (Psychology)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00271158