Cognitive tasks and learning

Liesbeth Kester; Paul A. Kirschner

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_225

Cognitive tasks and learning

Liesbeth Kester
, Paul A. Kirschner

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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).

Original language	English
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	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_225
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

cognitivism
schema theory
cognitive load theory
expertise
Complex tasks
Higher-order tasks
Intellectual tasks
Problem-solving tasks

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