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  2. Cognitive load - Wikipedia

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    The history of cognitive load theory can be traced to the beginning of cognitive science in the 1950s and the work of G.A. Miller.In his classic paper, [9] Miller was perhaps the first to suggest our working memory capacity has inherent limits.

  3. Spillover-crossover model - Wikipedia

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    One example is the study of Bakker, Demerouti and Dollard ([36]), showing that work roles interfered with family roles when work overload and emotional demands increased. In turn, the intimate partner experienced a higher level of demands at home (e.g., an overload of household tasks), as a result of the negative behaviors of the employee.

  4. E-learning (theory) - Wikipedia

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    The behavioural perspective focuses on the skills and behavioural outcomes of the learning process. Role-playing and application to on-the-job settings. [9] The contextual perspective focuses on the environmental and social aspects which can stimulate learning. Interaction with other people, collaborative discovery, and the importance of peer ...

  5. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Wikipedia

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman.The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.

  6. George Armitage Miller - Wikipedia

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    Miller was born on February 3, 1920, in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of George E. Miller, a steel company executive [1] and Florence (née Armitage) Miller. [3] Soon after his birth, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother during the Great Depression, attending public school and graduating from Charleston High School in 1937.

  7. Information processing (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    During this process there is simultaneous monitoring of the process, and whether it is producing the desired accomplishment. All these steps fall under the meta component processing, and the performance component is the art. The knowledge-acquisition portion is the learning or improving drawing skills. [citation needed]

  8. Context-dependent memory - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, context-dependent memory is the improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same. In a simpler manner, "when events are represented in memory, contextual information is stored along with memory targets; the context can therefore cue memories containing that contextual information". [1]

  9. Information overload - Wikipedia

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    Information overload (also known as infobesity, [1] [2] infoxication, [3] or information anxiety [4]) is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information (TMI) about that issue, [5] and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information. [6]