Memory
Cognitive Loads
Learning Effects
Instructional Design
Cognitive Load Theory
100
Can hold vast amounts of data and complex data
What is long term memory?
100
A distraction from the learning process
What is extraneous load?
100
Presenting words as speech rather than online text
What is the modality effect?
100
Combining a large set of elements into a smaller number of groups
What is chunking?
100
Australian psychologist best known for developing Cognitive Load Theory
Who is John Sweller?
200
Used to comprehend visual and auditory information
What is sensory memory?
200
Occurring in working memory which cannot be altered by instruction
What is intrinsic load?
200
Placing print words near corresponding graphics
What is the contiguity effect?
200
Reducing differences between the goal state and problem givens
What is means-ends analysis?
200
Channel of working memory processing visual information
What is the visual scratchpad?
300
Number of chunks of information held in working memory
What is the rule of seven (7 + or - 2) ?
300
Supports development of schema in long term memory
What is germane load?
300
Unnecessarily processing repetitive information
What is the redundancy effect?
300
The ability to perform tasks without concentration
What is automation?
300
Channel of working memory processing words, written or spoken
What is the phonetic scratchpad?
400
Memory limited in capacity and duration
What is working memory?
400
The amount of information a person tries to process in working memory at one time
What is cognitive load?
400
Including both words and graphics
What is the multimedia effect?
400
The storage of knowledge into long term memory
What is learning?
400
Total amount of cognitive activity imposed on working memory at one time
What is cognitive load theory?
500
Complex patterns of information stored in long term memory
What is schema?
500
The maximum number of chunks of information a person can process in working memory at any one time
What is cognitive limit?
500
Trying to process multiple and separated pieces of information
What is the split-attention effect?
500
Focusing on the information given and "finding what you can"
What is goal-free effect?
500
Intrinsic, Extraneous, Germane
What are the elements of cognitive load theory?
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