Instruction: Theoretical and Applied PerspectivesRonna F. Dillon, James Pellegrino Instruction highlights the ongoing research of military and academic communities--research aimed at developing new approaches in the instruction of complex intellectual processes and skills. Representative work includes learning procedural tasks and learning text comprehension processes in various environments such as computer-managed instructional settings. A variety of technological factors relevant to developing training materials for computerized environments is also presented. In addition, new domains such as learning map interpretation skills are included. This major collaborative effort was supported by the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center in San Diego, California. |
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... memory subsystems . The memory subsystem is further analyzed into two aspects : the knowledge base or long - term memory and the working memory or short - term memory . The latter is characterized by the active processing of information ...
... Memory . Thus , the processes in the working memory are used to gather and merge information from outside the brain with information in long - term memory inside the brain to construct an internal representation of the world as ...
... memory , which is defined by the occurrence of consciously controlled information - processing activities . Working memory is a limited memory that can be easily overloaded ( e.g. , attending to two or three things at once is difficult ...
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Cognitive Factors in Learning and Retention of Procedural Tasks | 47 |
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Instruction: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives Ronna F. Dillon,James Pellegrino No preview available - 1991 |