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Instructional Strategies
Memory
Theory
Dr. John Sweller
Principles
100
The process of taking individual units of information and grouping them into larger units.
What is chunking?
100
Memory that is extremely limited
What is working memory?
100
The three loads in the cognitive load theory.
What is extraneous load, intrinsic load, and germane load?
100
Where Dr. John Sweller currently works.
What is the University of New South Wales?
100
Problem solving methods that should be avoided.
What is means-ends approaches?
200
To solve a problem backwards from goal to the given problem.
What is means-ends-analysis?
200
Memory that is unlimited.
What is long term memory?
200
Theorist related to the Cognitive Load theory.
What is Dr. John Sweller?
200
The place where Dr. John Sweller lives.
What is Sydney, Australia?
200
This is increased by the use of auditory and visual information under conditions where both sources of information are essential.
What is working memory capacity?
300
An illustration used to prompt information retrieval.
What is visual cue?
300
Memory that is limited in capacity to about seven informational units.
What is short-term memory?
300
Repetitive information
What is redundancy?
300
Knowledge is stored in long-term memory as this.
What is schemas?
400
Units used to break down components of a topic.
What is a module?
400
3.Knowledge is stored here as schemas or schemata.
What is long term memory?
400
The idea that all instruction has an inherent difficulty associated with it.
What is cognitive load?
400
Dr. John Sweller's field of study.
What is educational psychology?
400
Redesigning instructional materials to reduce the levels of this load may enhance learning.
What is extraneous cognitive load?
500
Presenting narration and corresponding animation at the same time to minimize the need to hold representations in memory.
What is Synchronizing?
500
No matter how large or how complex, this is treated as a single entity in working memory
What is Schemas?
500
Theory that refers to the total amount of cognitive activity imposed on working memory at one time.
What is Cognitive Load Theory?
500
The school where Dr. John Sweller received his PHd.
What is the University of Adelaide's Department of Psychology
500
The working memory load associated with having to mentally integrate several sources of information can be eliminated by doing this.
What is physically integrating those sources of information?