Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning |
Editors | Norbert M. Seel |
Place of Publication | Boston, MA, USA |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 619-622 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4419-1428-6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4419-1427-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Abstract
Cognitive tasks are those undertakings that require a person to mentally process new information (i.e., acquire and organize knowledge / learn) and allow them to recall, retrieve that information from memory and to use that information at a later time in the same or similar situations (i.e., transfer).
Keywords
- cognitivism
- schema theory
- cognitive load theory
- expertise
- Complex tasks
- Higher-order tasks
- Intellectual tasks
- Problem-solving tasks