#cognitive load theory

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Anti-Goblin Mode: The Game I Play Every Day to Reprogram My Disorganized Brain 

It’s finally time to talk about Anti-Goblin Mode: my secret holy grail technique for conquering executive dysfunction in my home, my work, and my life in general.

I’ve never written about it before. It seemed too personal and too silly to share. But since I discovered it, I’ve used it nearly every day of my life—and the transformation has been permanent and incredible. And as our patrons demanded an article on becoming organized, its time has come!

One of the best pieces of general life advice I’ve ever received is this: never ask a natural talent to be your teacher. If they came out of the womb composing piano sonatas, don’t ask them to teach you piano! They literally don’t understand the experience of not knowing what they know! This holds true in organization, too. I find that most “organizational systems” were written by people with a natural talent for organization. Y’know—monsters who can keep a white rug clean. Their advice shouldn’t be trusted. Instead, the best teachers are people who struggled and persevered in the face of mediocrity.

On this point, I’m happy to attest that neither nature nor nurture set me up to be an organized person. I grew up the undiagnosed ADHD child of an undiagnosed ADHD parent who was also a hoarder! That means I’ve earned my organized life valiantly, on the battlefield.

So how? How did I become an organized person? I’m happy to tell you it’s not rigid, or complicated, or super philosophical, or time-consuming. I developed a game to help me do it. It’s very simple, but it’s transformed my life for the better. And I hope it might help you too.

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[richardtheteacher]

What is Dual Coding?

A blog post by Richard James Rogers (Award-Winning Author of The Quick Guide to Classroom Management and The Power of Praise: Empowering Students Through Positive Feedback). This blog post has been beautifully illustrated by Pop Sutthiya Lertyongphati. As educators, we’re always on the lookout for strategies that can enhance our students’ understanding and retention of information. One such…

[the-wormwormworm]

Germane Cogntive Load

This post is a revisit to previous work on Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) and re-focuses on the germane cognitive load aspect. Germane refers to the work put into creating a permanent store of knowledge, your long-term memory.The germane processes are a function of the learners cognitive resources available and, also are attributible to the learner’s motivation.  Germane load refers to the effort…

[thealchemyofgamecreation]

Mastering Cognitive Load: Unlocking the Secrets of Game Design

Discover the cognitive load theory in my latest game design blog article! Where I explore the powerful influence of cognitive load theory on creating captivating games. #GameDesign #IndieGameDev #UXDesign #GameDev #AdobeFirefly

[dannysciencefix]

Cognitive Theory and Primary Science Teaching

Cognitive science is gaining increasing influence in education and many existing and developing educational approaches are described as ‘inspired by cognitive science’. Many of these approaches have been long practiced or described as effective pedagogy without any reference to cognitive science – for example, quizzing pupils on topics has been common even without this being thought of as a form…

[tanadrin]

I would love to hear the rant about social media doomerism and conspiracy

I’m on my phone right now but the summary version is something like:

Humans are bad at integrating information into their worldview accurately bc of various cognitive biases

Social media incentivizes us seeking out content that excites fear or anger or irritation

Social media thus causes us to form negative impressions of the world bc it mediates so much information consumption and discourse these days

This general negative affective impression is subject to high confirmation bias and ppl in general are really bad at divorcing an affective impression of a thing from their dispassionate reasoning abt a thing

(Bc one of the functions of an affective impression is to “cache” our conclusions about a topic to save time and effort later)

(In general if you are a cynic and pessimist you can fall prey to these biases w/o social media but I think social media makes more ppl susceptible to them)

People don’t want to be dupes so they seek refuge in cynicism. We treat cynicism as wise or worldly when in fact cynicism makes you a dupe and an easy mark for grifters. Cynicism and low trust foster conspiracism, paranoia, and antisocial politics

(This is why so many congenitally contrarian folks seem to flit effortlessly between the far left and far right; it’s not horseshoe theory, they’ve just cooked their brains on this stuff)

This is a world where populist anti-social politicians like Trump and the AfD thrive, bc they will lie about how everything is terrible and people will nod along, bc it explains why their social media is full of awful stories of, like, immigrants eating pets and shit

But it doesn’t just have to be insane lies only a moron could believe. It can be any impression about a fact in the world that it is difficult to personally check and which is vulnerable to being swayed by anecdote

This is how we get a word where people think crime rates are higher than they’ve ever been when in fact crime is falling

Or child predators lurk around every corner when in fact children are safer than ever

Or the American economy is in a recession when in fact it’s doing historically well by just about every available metric (now with full employment AND low inflation!)

Because in a big world even where things are in general good and getting better you can always produce infinite individual examples of shitty things and pipe those in a steady stream into people’s eyeballs, and then point to that and leverage people’s low trust attitudes and their cynicism which tells them they are smarter than the experts and go “statistics is just a fancy way to lie! The world is secretly terrible! Every bad thing is even worse than you thought and every good thing is a lie!”

(Nevermind the whole phenomenon where anything that is complicated or that someone does not themselves understand gets treated like it’s actually secret and a conspiracy.)

And here I know I have to include some disclaimer about how this is not to discount individual cases of suffering or struggle, which are real, or that there are indeed some really awful things happening in the world right now, which there are, but you know what?

I’m tired of doing that. People with reading comprehension operating in good faith ought to be able to deduce that general statements do not obviate particular exceptions, and people who cling to their doomerism as a kind of emotional life raft do not generally argue with me in good faith.

Sometimes doomerism is a load-bearing pillar of their politics, which I think is dumb—I think you can be a leftist or a progressive without being a doomer! In fact I think doomerism is antithetical to useful politics!

Sometimes they are just depressed and treatment-resistant. Sometimes they are just angry misanthropes who want to feel justified in their misanthropy. Some doomers are themselves in bad circumstances and feeling hopeless about that—to them I am enormously sympathetic. Though a lot of doomers will admit they personally are doing OK—this does not seem to be most doomers.

But I think in general cynicism and doomerism and a worldview dominated by a general nebulous air of Everything Is Awful and by abstract nouns with threatening auras is not conducive to wisdom or understanding or useful politics or leading a happy and fulfilling life.

[brazenautomaton]

Dude, do you just not know what "weltgeist" means? Is that what's going on?

It's the world-spirit, which I know, and I know you know, and you know I know. You are pretending to be stupid in order to somehow tell yourself you've humiliated and dunked on me, but it's got nothing to do with reality. I'm guessing you think it's going to make me go on some fascist tear, because you cannot distinguish "fascist" from "person who thinks I am wrong." Because as previously stated, communists do not understand "wrong" the way fish do not understand "wet."

That entire thread is people saying "that is incorrect, that is not true, that is not a true statement" and communists being unable to grasp the concept of someone thinking a statement isn't true. You can't ever respond to the thing someone is saying, because you have such a disorted worldview and such a lack of cognitive empathy you can't envision a mental state other than your own. Anyone who says "that thing you said isn't true" must be either deliberately on the side of Capital, or been tricked into repeating propaganda from them. Because everything about your ideology is so completely factually incorrect, that you've lost the ability to check things against reality. If you did, you'd realize all of your Marxist theory was horseshit. That's why all you can do is tell others to read Marx, that's why all you can do is sneer and imply that other people are ignorant, and you fall the fuck apart the moment you try to explain anything or make any positive claim.

Now say something glib and pretending to be stupid so you can roll your eyes and make "get a load of this guy" gestures to your friends and remind the rest of us that life is not worth tolerating.

[televised-eyes]

It really saddens me to see Aziraphale get the full force of everyone’s contempt over his reaction to the kiss & here's why:

What do we know about Aziraphale's true character? What they we been shown? Well, he’s a silly angel, who cares too much, loves his partner Crowley and truly wants to do what he believes is the right thing!

Don't get me wrong, I can see why a lot of people side and identify with Crowley after the final fifteen, given his trauma and the fact that he was the one making himself vulnerable by initiating the kiss.

But here the thing: it’s not like Aziraphale acted out of character after hearing Crowley’s proposal. We, as the audience, have been shown multiple times when Crowley has begged for them to run away together and every time we’ve seen it, it has been in a situation where Crowley wants to abandon all responsibility. It’s a trauma response and I don’t blame Crowley for being traumatized by Heaven and Hell. Just like I don’t blame him for not wanting to go back to either.

But Aziraphale has never responded positively to this proposition before. The only difference this time was the kiss. A beautiful, desperate, awkward kiss!

Aziraphale has always been wired to take responsibility and direct action even when he shouldn’t. For him, Azi’s personal code is to always do what he believes is the right thing to do, even if it might not end well. He gives the flaming sword to humanity, he saves Job’s children, he discorporates himself to stop the apocalypse, he does the thing with the halo.

I just don’t buy the narrative that he chose Heaven over Crowley. I think Aziraphale chose Heaven *because* of Crowley. He knew as long as he was in charge, he could keep Crowley safe.

Azi clearly loves Crowley despite his cognitive dissonance at all times. He can talk all the livelong day about how they "aren’t friends," but his actions speak the opposite. He cares deeply for Crowley. Azi trusts Crowley, he lets him get “plenty of use” out of the bookshop, he turns a neighborhood association meeting into a cotillion ball so that he can dance with him, he risked an eternity in Hell by wearing Crowley’s face.

He also knows that Crowley always comes back especially his angel needs him. Unless Crowley does a 180 and returns to Hell to actively thwart Heaven out of spite (which ngl that would great television & a theory I’d like to dwell deeper into elsewhere) this was just another disagreement and they will work it out somehow by working together. And hopefully learn how to communicate clearly!

The very root of the argument was misunderstanding and failure of communication on both sides.

The more I think about the “I forgive you” line, the more I think it may have just been Azi’s gut reaction to read the kiss as one of Crowley’s “temptations.” It’s a loaded word, but I think most people read the kiss as a last act of desperation to convince him to run away. In the past, we have seen Azi’s automatic response to what he feels like is a temptation from Crowley has always been to “forgive” him.

Is it irritating? Yes. Is it good communication? No. Is it a trauma response? I think yes.

I think that’s why the ending of season 2 didn’t upset me as much as it has upset others. I feel like I understand both sides—both how and why Crowley and Aziraphale make their decisions—because the writing is so damn good.

*Aziraphale did not reject or abandon Crowley.*

That last look at Crowley before stepping into the elevator was not a “good bye” or a “fuck you.” I truly believe he looked back to remind himself why he’s doing what he’s doing in the first place!!!

Aziraphale is protecting Crowley because he loves Crowley and believes their relationship is not only worth making sacrifices for, but also strong enough to withstand them!

[dayacakrawala]

Oh, that's hilarious if Overlord kidnapped Trepan with the intention to learn how to fuck people directly in the brain right from the start. Break them, control them. And then he got loads and LOADS of theory on data storage and architecture, on memory mechanisms, and neural circuitry, and cognitive processes (I imagine it as overlapping computer science and psychology since they're fucking robots). Trepan was like a damn Scheherazade. The more theory he feeds Overlord (promising that maybe soon they'd get to practice), the longer he'll live.

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

am think about how tired how difficult how suck it is be higher support needs higher autism level

idk how explain because am not like. go through all day hate it hate self because honestly not even that aware of it most times it just is. see some higher level/support needs people say if give choice would want not born autistic high needs/levels and am absolute understand why they think that but if me, i don’t know if i would or would not because don’t know any different. can’t understand different perspective can’t understand experience that don’t have can’t even pretend imagine because theory of mind impairment can’t even think that.

but also would not say want reborn like this without hesitate. because need help everything every day and every day so struggle

most days just is not aware of it not think about it just follow but sometimes realize grim reality of would probably literally die if left alone for long will have depend on others for entire rest of life will never be independent never private. and that really scary and make feel sad and hopeless and scared

sure nothing wrong with need help nothing wrong with never can independent but with level of help need, depend on other people also mean depend on their free time, energy, health, mood, generosity, ability, want to help, money, etc etc. if want do something but other people not free or even just. they don’t want to, will not able. if other people sick or when parents go old, will be neglected. if take advantage of me, many times i literally wouldn’t even know.

will never be spontaneous like others. never in charge of own life like others.

even more suck that. even things you like. become too much cognitive load when do by self. so even thing enjoy is hard. even nonverbally respond to people even go places inside home too much cognitive (and physical) load.

cant even open container by self. wouldn’t even know to eat by self will not eat entire day if leave alone. need other people make sure brush teeth good clean. need other people physical help entire shower time. need other make sure go bed on time. need other people plan day for. need other people prompt n guide n direct go one activity to other and know what do next or else stuck do one entire day. many more. so many things have even trouble think and write and describe all. all of these sound so tame don’t even know how describe

sucks

[unless mutual. or frequent interact and i have talk to you before (which i count as mutual). do not reblog. especially do not add “i relate to this.” mutuals okay.

leave reblog open for mutuals but may close it depend on own comfort]

[itsnotmyfaultsomepeoplecantread]

Autism is so frustrating because sometimes I just have a severe disconnect between my feelings/reactions/cognition.

"Go to therapy," they said. "It'll help you understand your emotions." Well I did. And in theory, I do.

It never quite worked the same way for me, though, because I can actually rationalize quite well. And that was exhausting because it meant that I had to find a therapist who genuinely understood that. I am very empathetic and very rational. Sometimes, though, my brain doesn't want to be empathetic and rational. Sometimes it's just too many feelings to manage. And I never even knew the reason because I was just labeled as anxious and depressed and probably "crazy" with air quotes around it.

But unfortunately, now that I've gone through lots of therapy and spent a very long time trying to figure out why I was feeling a certain way, I discovered that I still have physical emotional reactions, I'm now just frustrated as shit that I'm having them. Like... I AM rationalizing. I KNOW that my feelings are not valid. But I'm still crying???? I don't want to be crying??? I know what needs to happen and I'm still physically upset. It's frustrating as sh*t. The tears are streaming down my face but that's not what's happening in my head.

I know, technically, that I'm allowed to have feelings. But it feels like such a burden? I'm absolutely terrified about becoming my (very reactive) parents, and that does not help. I don't want to traumatize others with my own anxiety.

BUT on the other hand, sometimes my brain cells just completely stop working. It's like the loading screen on a computer. And that's frustrating because I have STUFF TO DO. I need thoughts!! On some level, I need to be able to cognate. Instead, it just feels sort of blank, and that makes me panic in a totally different way. It's anxiety about being unable to speak. Unable to fully express myself.

And sometimes I express myself and it's just ~anxiety~.

My brain just feels like it's broken into separate spaces that can't seem to align on anything. And that's really what autism is, a lot of times. There is a lot of gray and white matter, but not quite in the right places.

And I have to just accept it, because there isn't a "cure" for autism.

Unfortunately, my ADHD somewhat keeps this in check, because it says "do things! Socialize! HAVE EVERY EMOTION" except then I can't focus on shit, and I'm slightly irritable, and still kinda useless.

[bitchesgetriches]

Anti-Goblin Mode: The Game I Play Every Day to Reprogram My Disorganized Brain

NEW POST + VIDEO! Anti-Goblin Mode: The Game I Play Every Day to Reprogram My Disorganized Brain.

It’s finally time to talk about Anti-Goblin Mode: my secret holy grail technique for conquering executive dysfunction in my home, my work, and my life in general. I’ve never written about it before. It seemed too personal and too silly to share. But since I discovered it, I’ve used it nearly every day of my life—and the transformation has been permanent and incredible. And as our patrons…

[xami122x]

Week 1 - Sept 13

Topics - What are the effects of gamification on cognitive load and emotion, Illusion/Perception-Bending

Because I am basing my capstone on my thesis research question, I have a lot of different sources and an entire literature review (rough) to look through. However, I wanted to avoid limiting myself to simply that research question and started exploring the major topics within the questions and cast a wider net for more creative inspiration.

I began looking through this article about cognitive and emotional research in relationship to gamification and serious gaming. I was drawn to the topic of "inattentional blindness" (the tendency to miss a second stimulus after detecting an initial visual stimulus) which tied into my second topic of illusions or any sort of perceptual manipulation that may trick the brain's processing of images/information.

"Additionally, emotion may prevent “inattentional blindness,” i.e., the tendency to miss a second stimulus after detecting an initial visual stimulus"

"Immersive first-person shooter games enable faster and more accurate attention allocation. Focused attention is key to achieving cognitive absorption or “flow” " --> ties into flow theory (providing positive incentives at varying intervals aligns with human nature, which is driven by internal motivations stimulated by external rewards).

After reading about inattentional blindness, I wanted to research illusion science and history more. This article included some history of the origin of illusions, the use of depth, movement, and color in optical illusion art, and important types and figures of illusion art.

"According to BigThink, there are three main types of optical illusions: literal, physiological, and cognitive. "

"Literal illusions can be seen in two different ways, such as the duck and rabbit image. Physiological illusions use sensory overload to trick our brains into seeing movement and depth that aren’t actually there. Cognitive illusions trick both our eyes and brain with impossible shapes and logic, such as Oscar Reutersvärd’s “Penrose Triangle.”"

I hope to look into more game designs because I was able to research Superliminal a bit this week and found that was a really interesting design to confuse players using perception and "tricking brains."

I also feel like next week I will be looking more into software for game design and playing around with that for a while.

Works Cited

[the-wormwormworm]

Cognitive Load Theory: Implications for nursing education and research

Cognitive Load Theory: Implications for nursing education and research #Nurseeducator #nursing #adultlearning

Journal Club Article: Chen, R., Dore, K., Grierson, L. E., Hatala, R., & Norman, G. (2014). Cognitive Load Theory: Implications for nursing education and research. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive, 46(2). Background Students in nursing and health education programs acquire a body ofknowledge, skills, and attitudes during their education in preparation for future practice. Use the…

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 40, 2023

Peripersonal encoding of forelimb proprioception in the mouse somatosensory cortex. Alonso, I., Scheer, I., Palacio-Manzano, M., Frézel-Jacob, N., Philippides, A., & Prsa, M. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 1866.

The hands’ default location guides tactile spatial selectivity. Badde, S., & Heed, T. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(15), e2209680120.

Shared Neural Activity But Distinct Neural Dynamics for Cognitive Control in Monkey Prefrontal and Parietal Cortex. Blackman, R. K., Crowe, D. A., DeNicola, A. L., Sakellaridi, S., Westerberg, J. A., Huynh, A. M., … Chafee, M. V. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(15), 2767–2781.

Brief synaptic inhibition persistently interrupts firing of fast-spiking interneurons. Chamberland, S., Nebet, E. R., Valero, M., Hanani, M., Egger, R., Larsen, S. B., … Tsien, R. W. (2023). Neuron, 111(8), 1264-1281.e5.

Memory for incidentally learned categories evolves in the post-learning interval. Gabay, Y., Karni, A., & Holt, L. L. (2023). eLife, 12, e81855.

Multiple and Dissociable Effects of Sensory History on Working-Memory Performance. Hajonides, J. E., van Ede, F., Stokes, M. G., Nobre, A. C., & Myers, N. E. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(15), 2730–2740.

Schema-based predictive eye movements support sequential memory encoding. Huang, J., Velarde, I., Ma, W. J., & Baldassano, C. (2023). eLife, 12, e82599.

Cortical magnification eliminates differences in contrast sensitivity across but not around the visual field. Jigo, M., Tavdy, D., Himmelberg, M. M., & Carrasco, M. (2023). eLife, 12, e84205.

Memory load of information encoded amplifies the magnitude of hindsight bias. Kaida, K., & Kaida, N. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(4), e0283969.

A horizon for haptic perception. Miller, L. E., Jarto, F., & Medendorp, W. P. (2023). Journal of Neurophysiology, 129(4), 793–798.

Repetition learning is neither a continuous nor an implicit process. Musfeld, P., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(16), e2218042120.

Development of top-down cortical propagations in youth. Pines, A., Keller, A. S., Larsen, B., Bertolero, M., Ashourvan, A., Bassett, D. S., … Satterthwaite, T. D. (2023). Neuron, 111(8), 1316-1330.e5.

Negative energy balance hinders prosocial helping behavior. Pozo, M., Milà-Guasch, M., Haddad-Tóvolli, R., Boudjadja, M. B., Chivite, I., Toledo, M., … Claret, M. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(15), e2218142120.

Practice-related changes in perceptual evidence accumulation correlate with changes in working memory. Schmiedek, F., Lövdén, M., Ratcliff, R., & Lindenberger, U. (2023). Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 152(3), 763–779.

Single-Trial Dynamics of Competing Reach Plans in the Human Motor Periphery. Selen, L. P. J., Corneil, B. D., & Medendorp, W. P. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(15), 2782–2793.

Coregistration of heading to visual cues in retrosplenial cortex. Sit, K. K., & Goard, M. J. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 1992.

The neural architecture of theory-based reinforcement learning. Tomov, M. S., Tsividis, P. A., Pouncy, T., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Gershman, S. J. (2023). Neuron, 111(8), 1331-1344.e8.

Stress affects the prediction of others’ behavior. Witt, S., Seehagen, S., & Zmyj, N. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(4), e0283782.

Motor cortex gates distractor stimulus encoding in sensory cortex. Zhang, Z., & Zagha, E. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 2097.

Spatiotemporal organisation of human sensorimotor beta burst activity. Zich, C., Quinn, A. J., Bonaiuto, J. J., O’Neill, G., Mardell, L. C., Ward, N. S., & Bestmann, S. (2023). eLife, 12, e80160.

[kennak]

認知負荷理論の目的は、人間の認知アーキテクチャの能力と限界を考慮することによって、学習成果を予測することである。この理論は、学習教材の設計の特徴を人間の情報処理原理と結びつけるため、幅広い学習環境に適用することができる。認知負荷理論は、「効果的な学習のデザインは、人間の知性がどのように働くかについての知見に基づかなければならない」という考えに導かれている。この前提から出発して、知識の獲得と理解の様々なプロセスが、能動的で容量の限られた情報処理システムとみなされる人間の認知システムへの要求という観点から説明される。学習すべき情報の複雑さ、学習者への指示の提示方法、学習者の既有の経験や知識によって引き起こされる認知資源への要求を考慮し、認知負荷理論は、何が学習を成功させるのか、そしてどのように学習が教授や指導によって効果的にサポートされるのかを予測することを目的としている。 このように、認知負荷理論は「人間の認知アーキテクチャの能力と限界」を出発点とした、効果的な学習デザインを考案するための理論です。ソフトウェア開発やプログラミングも、「複雑性との戦い」という表現をされることがあると思いますが、この「複雑性」も「人間の認知アーキテクチャの能力と限界」があるからこそ発生し、増減するものだと考えられます。 認知負荷理論は複雑性との戦いにおいて、有効な道具となり得ると考えられ、注目が集まっているように思われます。

認知負荷および認知負荷理論 (Cognitive Load Theory) をもう少し正確に理解するための心理学研究・知見の紹介