Balancing Our Mental Effort
To increase our learning performance, we need to balance our cognitive load. It helps to understand what the three types of cognitive loads are:
- Intrinsic cognitive Load: The inner load we feel when we are calculating something complex. This is a fixed load on the brain.
- Extraneous cognitive load: Presenting information or a task in a certain way, like visually or verbally, making it easier to understand.
- Germane cognitive load: It is the flow-chart constructions of the brain, which help in long-term learning. The mind makes information easier to grasp by creating maps and inner processes, helping us understand better.
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