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Cognitive architecture and instructional design

by John Sweller, Jeroen J. G. Van Merrienboer, Fred G. W. C. Paas - Educational Psychology Review , 1998
"... Cognitive load theory has been designed to provide guidelines intended to assist in the presentation of information in a manner that encourages learner activities that optimize intellectual performance. The theory assumes a limited capacity working memory that includes partially independent subcompo ..."
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subcomponents to deal with auditory/verbal material and visual/2- or 3-dimensional information as well as an effectively unlimited long-term memory, holding schemas that vary in their degree of automation. These structures and functions of human cognitive architecture have been used to design a variety of novel

Usability Analysis of Visual Programming Environments: a `cognitive dimensions' framework

by T. R. G. Green, M. Petre - JOURNAL OF VISUAL LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING , 1996
"... The cognitive dimensions framework is a broad-brush evaluation technique for interactive devices and for non-interactive notations. It sets out a small vocabulary of terms designed to capture the cognitively-relevant aspects of structure, and shows how they can be traded off against each other. T ..."
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The cognitive dimensions framework is a broad-brush evaluation technique for interactive devices and for non-interactive notations. It sets out a small vocabulary of terms designed to capture the cognitively-relevant aspects of structure, and shows how they can be traded off against each other

The Structure-Mapping Engine: Algorithm and Examples

by Brian Falkenhainer, Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner - Artificial Intelligence , 1989
"... This paper describes the Structure-Mapping Engine (SME), a program for studying analogical processing. SME has been built to explore Gentner's Structure-mapping theory of analogy, and provides a "tool kit" for constructing matching algorithms consistent with this theory. Its flexibili ..."
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flexibility enhances cognitive simulation studies by simplifying experimentation. Furthermore, SME is very efficient, making it a useful component in machine learning systems as well. We review the Structure-mapping theory and describe the design of the engine. We analyze the complexity of the algorithm

Human agency in social cognitive theory

by Albert Bandura - The American Psychologist , 1989
"... ABSTRACT: The present article examines the nature and function of human agency within the conceptual model of triadic reciprocal causation. In analyzing the operation of human agency in this interactional causal structure, social cognitive theory accords a central role to cognitive, vicarious, self- ..."
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ABSTRACT: The present article examines the nature and function of human agency within the conceptual model of triadic reciprocal causation. In analyzing the operation of human agency in this interactional causal structure, social cognitive theory accords a central role to cognitive, vicarious, self

APPLICATION TO THREE MEASURES OF COGNITIVE STRUCTURE

by Richard J. Shavelson, George C. Stanton, Richard J. Shavelson, George C. Stanton
"... and application of three measures of cognitive structure ..."
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and application of three measures of cognitive structure

An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function.

by Earl K Miller , Jonathan D Cohen - Annual Review of Neuroscience, , 2001
"... Abstract The prefrontal cortex has long been suspected to play an important role in cognitive control, in the ability to orchestrate thought and action in accordance with internal goals. Its neural basis, however, has remained a mystery. Here, we propose that cognitive control stems from the active ..."
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Abstract The prefrontal cortex has long been suspected to play an important role in cognitive control, in the ability to orchestrate thought and action in accordance with internal goals. Its neural basis, however, has remained a mystery. Here, we propose that cognitive control stems from

Verbal reports as data

by K. Anders Ericsson, Herbert A. Simon - Psychological Review , 1980
"... The central proposal of this article is that verbal reports are data. Accounting for verbal reports, as for other kinds of data, requires explication of the mech-anisms by which the reports are generated, and the ways in which they are sensitive to experimental factors (instructions, tasks, etc.). W ..."
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to understand in detail the mecha-nisms and internal structure of cognitive pro-cesses that produce these relations. In the limiting case, we would like to have process models so explicit that they could actually produce the predicted behavior from the in-formation in the stimulus.

The Varieties of Reference

by Jeff Evans , 1982
"... Tracing the development of concepts of affect and emotion in mathematics education (ME) research is informative for research on teaching statistics. In both areas, early research focused on more stable aspects of affect- beliefs, values and attitudes- using surveys to study dimensionality, and corre ..."
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, and correlations with performance. In ME, a concern with gender differences led to focusing on “mathematics anxiety ” so as to provide a non-cognitive explanation for any gender differences in performance. McLeod (1992) proposed a spectrum of forms of affect, from beliefs (more stable, “cooler”) over to emotions

Implicit learning and tacit knowledge

by Arthur S. Reber - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , 1989
"... I examine the phenomenon of implicit learning, the process by which knowledge about the rale-governed complexities of the stimulus environment is acquired independently of conscious attempts to do so. Our research with the two, seemingly disparate experimental paradigms of synthetic grammar learning ..."
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learning and probability learning is reviewed and integrated with other approaches to the general problem of unconscious cognition. The conclusions reached are as follows: (a) Implicit learning produces a tacit knowledge base that is abstract and representative of the structure of the environment; (b

Recursive Distributed Representations

by Jordan B. Pollack - Artificial Intelligence , 1990
"... A long-standing difficulty for connectionist modeling has been how to represent variable-sized recursive data structures, such as trees and lists, in fixed-width patterns. This paper presents a connectionist architecture which automatically develops compact distributed representations for such compo ..."
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, in that they combine apparently immiscible aspects of features, pointers, and symbol structures. They form a bridge between the data structures necessary for high-level cognitive tasks and the associative, pattern recognition machinery provided by neural networks. 2 J. B. Pollack 1. Introduction One of the major
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