scholarly journals Load-managed problem formats

Target ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Washbourne
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Metacognitive Monitoring ◽  
Process Orientation ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Schema Acquisition ◽  
Cognitive Overload ◽  
Goal Specificity ◽  
Task Architecture ◽  
High Road

Does the “expert blind spot”, our “unconscious competence”, lead us to undermine the effectiveness of our translation assignments? This study characterizes the translation task as schema-based, and thus prone to cognitive overload for the learner. Accordingly, schema acquisition tasks featuring reduced-goal specificity and goal-free problems for training the novice are reviewed. The argument is put forward that we need 1) to use more scaffolding to reduce cognitive load, 2) to vary task architecture for learning (including the use of planning pre-tasks), and 3) to provide diagnostic help for the student translator to attain context-independence for ‘high road transfer’. Formats for expertise modeling are considered—reverse tasks, completion examples, and other whole-task models—as instructional designs for load-managed translation tasks that improve problemsolving, schema acquisition, process-orientation, and metacognitive monitoring.

The impact of goal specificity and goal type on learning outcome and cognitive load

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Wirth ◽  
Josef Künsting ◽  
Detlev Leutner
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Goal Specificity ◽  
The Impact

Cognitive Load Theory and Patient Safety

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Harry ◽  
John Sweller
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Cognitive Load Theory ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Safe Patient Care ◽  
Load Theory ◽  
Cognitive Overload ◽  
Care Systems

Effective patient care depends on the ability to store and retrieve patient information and medical knowledge. All knowledge is either acquired from the environment or created de novo through trial and error. In either case, cues from the environment are filtered through working memory to attempt to guide action. Psychological principles such as resource theory and cognitive load theory suggest that humans have a limited amount of working memory that can be used to assimilate new information. When working memory is overloaded (i.e., cognitive overload), one’s attention is limited to fewer salient patient data pieces and one will naturally begin to ignore potentially crucial information. Cognitive overload can occur as a result of highly complex information, poorly organized information, distracting environments, or provider physiology. Attention to factors that lead to cognitive overload are critical in designing safe patient care systems.

scholarly journals Can You Make Better Decisions If You Are Bilingual?

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Alena Kirova ◽  
Jose Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Heritage Speakers ◽  
Decision Making Problem ◽  
Cognitive Overload ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Heritage Speakers Of Spanish ◽  
Rational Language

Studies have shown that “framing bias,” a phenomenon in which two different presentations of the same decision-making problem provoke different answers, is reduced in a foreign language (the Foreign Language effect, FLe). Three explanations have emerged to account for the difference. First, the cognitive enhancement hypothesis states that lower proficiency in the FL leads to slower, more deliberate processing, reducing the framing bias. Second, contradicting the previous, the cognitive overload hypothesis, states that the cognitive load actually induces speakers to make less rational decisions in the FL. Finally, the reduced emotionality hypothesis suggests that speakers have less of an emotional connection to a foreign language (FL), causing an increase in rational language processing. Previous FLe research has involved both FL and non-FL speakers such as highly proficient acculturated bilinguals. Our study extends this research program to a population of heritage speakers of Spanish (HS speakers), whose second language (English) is dominant and who have comparable emotional resonances in both of their languages. We compare emotion-neutral and emotion-laden tasks: if reduced emotionality causes the FLe, it should only be present in emotion-laden tasks, but if it is caused by cognitive load, it should be present across tasks. Ninety-eight HS speakers, with varying degrees of proficiency in Spanish, exhibited cognitive biases across a battery of tasks: framing bias appeared in both cognitive-emotional and purely cognitive tasks, consistent with previous studies. Language of presentation (and proficiency) did not have a significant effect on responses in cognitive-emotional tasks, but did have an effect on the purely-cognitive Disjunction fallacy task: HS speakers did better in their second, more proficient language, a result inconsistent with the reduced emotionality hypothesis. Moreover, higher proficiency in Spanish significantly improved the rate of correct responses, indicating that our results are consistent with the cognitive overload hypothesis.

Advergaming – How Does Cognitive Overload Effect Brand Recall?

2017 ◽  
pp. 1579-1602
Author(s):  
Ayşegül Sağkaya Güngör ◽  
Tuğçe Ozansoy Çadırcı ◽  
Şirin Gizem Köse
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Load Condition ◽  
Brand Attitude ◽  
Brand Attitudes ◽  
Brand Recall ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Cognitive Overload ◽  
Load Conditions

Advergaming serves as a new and valuable form of online advertising, especially for companies that target young consumers. This study examines the impacts of cognitive overload with placement prominence on respondents' brand recall, recognition and brand attitudes. An experiment was conducted on a group of university students with an exposure to an advergame under low and high cognitive load stimulus. Results showed that brands that are placed prominently are better recalled in high cognitive load condition. However, cognitive overload doesn't have any significant effect on the recognition of the main brand in which the advergames is specifically designed. Moreover, there is no difference in recall of subtly placed products in low and high cognitive load conditions. However, there is a significant difference in brand attitude in different cognitive loads. The study both investigated the context of advergames and as well in-game advertising (IGA) situations. The results of the study have both practical and theoretical implications.

COGNITIVE OVERLOAD MANAGEMENT: EMPOWERING SIMULATION BASED MEDICAL EDUCATION THROUGH MINDFUL REALITY CHECKS

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44.3-44
Author(s):  
Erum Khan
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Cognitive Overload ◽  
Facilitation Skills ◽  
Simulation Exercises

AimsTo guide the design of simulation based instructions consistent with the nature of human cognitive architecture.BackgroundCognitive load is the effort required for information handling in the working memory. There is a wealth of research on Human cognition and Instructional science that suggests that effective and efficient instructional strategies should avoid overloading the limited capacity of the working memory; a theory called “Cognitive Load Theory”. The foundational fact of this theory which is critical to any instructional strategy is that beyond a certain limit the cognitive overload starts impairing student learning.Description of Innovation TopicAt Center for Advanced Simulation in Healthcare, Gulf Medical University; simulation based instructions are designed keeping the human cognition in mind. Appropriately planning, integrating and aligning the clinical content and skills with the level of the learner takes care of the content load (Intrinsic load) while on the other hand constructively designing the simulation session with appropriate use of the simulation fidelity, pre-scenario briefing, simulator and learning environment orientation and debriefing facilitation skills matching the expectation, motivation level and interest of the learners ensures a mindful check on the extraneous and germane load that arises when learners interact with the instructional material.ConclusionsSimulation Educators should aim to understand the causes of cognitive overload and stress and have strategies to minimize their impact. Keeping a mindful watch out and frequent reality checks on the intrinsic and extrinsic load of the simulation exercises is highly recommended. We recommend the use of pre-session materials and advanced organizers, a comprehensive pre-briefing and debriefing, small peer group frequent simulation exercises with increasing level of challenges.

scholarly journals Advergaming – How Does Cognitive Overload Effect Brand Recall?

2016 ◽  
pp. 501-524
Author(s):  
Ayşegül Sağkaya Güngör ◽  
Tuğçe Ozansoy Çadırcı ◽  
Şirin Gizem Köse
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Load Condition ◽  
Brand Attitude ◽  
Brand Attitudes ◽  
Brand Recall ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Cognitive Overload ◽  
Load Conditions

Advergaming serves as a new and valuable form of online advertising, especially for companies that target young consumers. This study examines the impacts of cognitive overload with placement prominence on respondents' brand recall, recognition and brand attitudes. An experiment was conducted on a group of university students with an exposure to an advergame under low and high cognitive load stimulus. Results showed that brands that are placed prominently are better recalled in high cognitive load condition. However, cognitive overload doesn't have any significant effect on the recognition of the main brand in which the advergames is specifically designed. Moreover, there is no difference in recall of subtly placed products in low and high cognitive load conditions. However, there is a significant difference in brand attitude in different cognitive loads. The study both investigated the context of advergames and as well in-game advertising (IGA) situations. The results of the study have both practical and theoretical implications.

Cognitive load, schema acquisition, and procedural adaptation in nonisomorphic analogical transfer.

1993 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A. Pierce ◽  
Melissa K. Duncan ◽  
Barry Gholson ◽  
Glen E. Ray ◽  
et al
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Analogical Transfer ◽  
Schema Acquisition

scholarly journals Congruent Audio-visual Alarms for Supervision Tasks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliott Audry ◽  
Jérémie Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Cognitive Overload ◽  
Future Research Directions

Operators in surveillance activities face cognitive overload due to the fragmentation of information on several screens, the dynamic nature of the task and the multiple visual or audible alarms. This paper presents our ongoing efforts to design efficient audio-visual alarms for surveillance activities such as traffic management or air traffic control. We motivate the use of congruent cross-modal animations to design alarms and describe audio-visual mappings based on this paradigm. We ran a preference experiments with 24 participants to assess our designs and found that specific polarities between visual and audio parameters were preferred. We conclude with future research directions to validate the efficiency of our alarms with different cognitive load levels.

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