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Jang, Jooyoung; Schunn, Christian D.; Nokes, Timothy J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Learning requires applying limited working memory and attentional resources to intrinsic, germane, and extraneous aspects of the learning task. To reduce the especially undesirable extraneous load aspects of learning environments, cognitive load theorists suggest that spatially integrated learning materials should be used instead of spatially…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Efficiency, Spatial Ability