A review was conducted of studies that assessed the effects of acute bouts of physical activity on adults' cognitive performance. Three groups of studies were constituted on the basis of the type of exercise protocol employed. Each group was then evaluated in terms of information-processing theory. It was concluded that submaximal aerobic exercise performed for periods up to 60 min facilitate s...

People's experiences // Cognitive processing and psychology. Question 2 Information about how psychologists define schema theory. A comparison. Gender schema theory suggests that young children are influenced by society's and has a master's in counseling psychology and business administration. This article presents an overview of schema theory, a learning theory that explains how prior Tompkins...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this paper is to examine how to apply the science of learning to medical education. SCIENCE OF LEARNING The science of learning is the scientific study of how people learn. Multimedia learning - learning from words and pictures - is particularly relevant to medical education. The cognitive theory of multimedia learning is an information-processing explanation of how people...

From the standpoint of conflict-monitoring theory (Botvinick et al., 2001), detecting an incident of information-processing conflict should attenuate the disruptive influence of information-processing conflicts encountered subsequently, by which time cognitive-control operations will have been engaged. To examine the generality of this conflict-adaptation process across task dimensions, the pre...

amount and kinds of communication between differen t agents . Galbraith (1974, 1977) expanded on their work , explicitly considering an organization's need to proces s information and reduce environmental uncertainty, an d strategies by which it could achieve this goal . Tushma n and Nadler (1978) hypothesized that different organizations face different organizations face different levels o f u...

Research spanning decades has generated a long list of phenomena associated with human spatial information processing. Additionally, a number of theories have been proposed about the representation, organization and processing of spatial information by humans. This paper presents a broad account of human spatial competence, integrated with the ACT-R cognitive architecture. Using a cognitive arc...

Many researchers in AI and cognitive science believe that the complexity of a behavioral description reflects the underlying information processing complexity of the mechanism producing the behavior. This paper explores the foundations of this complexity argument. We first distinguish two types of complexity judgements that can be applied to these descriptions and then argue that neither type c...