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Woody Plants of the Southeastern United
States: A Field Botany Course on CD, by Dr. Bruce
Kirchoff, Ph.D.
Woody Plants of the Southeastern United States
(WPSEUS) is a computer based visual training program designed to
rapidly and efficiently help users become experts in plant
identification. Unlike novices, experts are able to quickly
recognize patterns. This allows chess masters to recognize
meaningful chess configurations, and field botanists to identify
plants at a glance. WPSEUS helps users achieve this mastery in a
fraction of the time that is normally required. It does this by
adapting active learning techniques from the cognitive psychology
literature.
WPSEUS uses active learning to promote holistic processing, the
visual processing mode used by experts. Active learning has been
shown to engage the brain areas associated with visual expertise,
while passive learning does not. The training techniques are based
on two key competencies of experts. Experts are able to recognize
patterns, and have the ability to segment their perceptual fields in
order to pick out relevant details. Acquiring these competencies is
part of what it means to learn to see. WPSEUS is the only program
that trains users in these competencies from its first use. It
functions like a field course in plant identification. PC
Windows Version (not Mac compatible).
AV-04-041
Woody Plants of the SE US CD
$27.00
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