When the same information is presented more than once, causing extraneous cognitive load.
What is the redundancy effect?
100
The number of units of information people can generally hold in their working memory at one time.
What is 7 plus or minus 2?
100
Educational psychologist known for originating cognitive load theory.
Who is John Sweller?
100
To group or break content apart in meaningful ways to help build schema.
What is chunking?
200
It means the total amount of mental effort being used in the working memory.
What is cognitive load?
200
“The worked out example should be followed by a similar but unresolved problem to maximize motivation.”
What is the problem completion effect?
200
“…a cognitive system with a limited capacity that is responsible for the transient holding, processing, and manipulation of information.”
What is working memory?
200
He wrote the paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two".
Who is George A. Miller?
200
Two levels of learners that can react differently to various cognitive load.
What are novice and expert?
300
The load related to the amount of effort spent on building new schemas, i.e., learning the material, and is tied to a learner’s motivation and interest in the topic.
What is germane load?
300
“Novice learners with a specific learning goal (like a precise question to answer) focus on the goal and pay no attention to other information.”
What is the goal free effect?
300
Framework for organizing information and building connections between new information and existing knowledge located in long-term memory.
What is schema?
300
A colleague of Sweller, his dissertation was included in the resources to review for this module.
Who is Graham Cooper?
300
Intrinsic cognitive load can be reduced by this simple-to-complex sequencing.
What is scaffolding?
400
The inherent nature or level of difficulty of the information or the task to accomplish.
What is intrinsic load?
400
“Occurs when learners have to process and integrate multiple and separated sources of information”, i.e. text describing parts of a graphic.
What is the split-attention effect?
400
You should do this with extraneous load.
What is remove?
400
He developed a well-known model of working memory.
Who is Alan Baddeley?
400
The idea that learning with words and graphics is more effective than learning with words alone.
What is the multimedia principle?
500
Load on the working memory that is completely unrelated to the learning task at hand.
What is extraneous load?
500
“Using known and resolved examples diminish cognitive load and improves comprehension.”
What is the worked examples effect?
500
You should try to do this with germane load.
What is increase?
500
Another Sweller colleague, he co-wrote the article “Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design.”
Who is van Merriënboer?
500
This technique takes sections of a worked example away, piece by piece, until the learner is left with a full problem to complete.