Cognitive Load During Problem Solving

Sweller, J. (1988). Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning. Cognitive Science, 12(2), 257-285.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1988

DOI

10.1207/s15516709cog1202_4

Link

https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog1202_4

Cited from

art_aesthetics, engineering_design, psychology

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Accidental Vs Essential Complexity
  • In education, the conceptual difficulty of calculus is essential while poor sequencing and notation overhead is accidental, and curriculum reform attacks the latter.

    This sourceFounds cognitive load theory, separating intrinsic load (the irreducible difficulty of the material) from extraneous load (imposed by how it is presented) — the education-domain form of the essential/accidental partition that curriculum and notation reform target.

• Chunking
  • T2: Chunk Granularity Mismatch.
• Minimalism
  • … sculpture as catalogued by Meyer), systematic design philosophy (Maeda's design principles, Kondo's organizing method, Norman's human-centered design, Rams's ten principles), and empirical research in usability and cognition (cognitive load theory, signal-to-noise optimization; Sweller's cognitive load research

Domain-specific

• Cognitive Load
  • Cognitive load theory, grounded in Sweller 1988, decomposes demand into three components:

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