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cognitive load

effort being used in the working memory, which can be differentiated into three types: intrinsic, extraneous, and germane
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cognitive load

Summary

cognitive load ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (517 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cognitive load's subclass of is recorded as working memory[2].
  • cognitive load's subclass of is recorded as theory[3].
  • cognitive load's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[4].
  • cognitive load's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/058mx5[5].
  • cognitive load's facet of is recorded as heuristic[6].
  • cognitive load's facet of is recorded as attention[7].
  • cognitive load's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11g69jhdz8[8].
  • cognitive load's Quora topic ID is recorded as Cognitive-Load[9].
  • cognitive load's named by is recorded as John Sweller[10].
  • cognitive load's named by is recorded as Paul Chandler[11].
  • cognitive load's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 61641136[12].
  • cognitive load's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C61641136[13].
  • cognitive load's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2985571061[14].
  • cognitive load's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 34598[15].

Why It Matters

cognitive load ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (517 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

cognitive friction

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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