Claims

Long-term memory is effectively unlimited and holds schemas that vary in their degree of automation

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r? · q1
Currency · newest study 1998 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q1 i? Long-term memory is effectively unlimited and holds schemas varying in degree of automation. → Sweller 1998

q2 i? Long-term memory is effectively unlimited and holds schemas varying in degree of automation. → Sweller 1998

Evidence

Sweller 1998

Sweller, J., van Merrienboer, J.J.G. & Paas, F.G.W.C. (1998). Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022193728205

q1 · i? · review · r?

Theoretical assumption from the article's abstract describing the long-term memory component of the cognitive architecture: "an effectively unlimited long-term memory, holding schemas that vary in their degree of automation." No empirical test is reported in the available text.

"as well as an effectively unlimited long-term memory, holding schemas that vary in their degree of automation"

Discussion

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type claim
id long-term-memory-schemas-automation
aliases long-term-memory-schemas-varying-automation
title Long-term memory is effectively unlimited and holds schemas that vary in their degree of automation
description Long-term memory is effectively unlimited and holds schemas that vary in their degree of automation
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1998
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