Cognitive load is defined in cognitive psychology as the extent
of mental effort used in working memory.
I know everyone will eat them, and they require little
mental effort on my part.
These tasks are completed with very
little mental effort because they have been repeated often enough to become automatic.
Studies have shown that by implementing small changes in your diet, you increase the likelihood of maintaining the newly - acquired habits with
less mental effort.
Further, a variety of research suggests that any activities
involving mental effort can lead to greater food consumption without an increase in appetite.
Healthy competition relies on the brain to balance the physical, chemical, and
mental efforts used during training and racing.
She has developed extraordinary powers of concentration and can
exert mental effort whenever she needs to.
In cognitive psychology, cognitive load refers to the total amount
of mental effort being used in the working memory.
Due to the fact that videos are mainly associated to entertainment, it seems that learners need to put
less mental effort.
I pretty much always have a frozen bag of meatballs on hand in the freezer for a quick and simple last - minute meal that doesn't require very
much mental effort on my part.
Often avoids or strongly dislikes tasks (such as schoolwork or homework) that require sustained mental effort
This convoluted mess of an introduction requires
more mental effort than any movie this idiotic deserves.
«It's been known since the 1960s that the pupil dilates
with mental effort,» says Wolfgang Einhäuser of the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, and coordinator of the team that has developed a communication system using the phenomenon.
Here, for instance, is an NPR article explaining «a study that found cocoa flavanols can help boost mood and sustain clear thinking among adults who are engaged in
intense mental efforts — like students cramming, or journalists on deadline.»
Nonetheless, having found abnormal patterns of brain activity, Schwartz then had OCD patients engage in intensive
mental effort through what he called relabeling, reattributing, refocusing, and revaluing (the 4 Rs).
Most of us expend quite a bit of
mental effort just sifting through all that noise to get to what is important.
To comprehend Donne takes exacting, meticulous, and often
torturous mental effort, for he is, as the play reminds us repeatedly, an immensely difficult poet.
No, but maybe it's more of a process of holding onto beliefs with an open hand and being open to allowing God to slowly untangle truth from untruth instead of being closed minded because we have determined truth through our
own mental efforts.
Alpha waves are generally regarded as an indicator of
reduced mental effort, «cortical idling» or mind wandering.
It's simply inescapable that understanding the physical world precisely requires a grip on math that can not be achieved without
considerable mental effort.
«Attaining higher levels of education, having a mentally demanding job, or regular and sustained
mental effort builds something called cognitive reserve,» Willette said.
Brain imaging studies show that lying takes
greater mental effort than telling the truth, and children's ability to fib increases hand in hand with their overall cognitive development.
When it's been hot the pincurls have been ditched in favour of buns, I've had little
mental effort left to figure out how to tie together an outfit when my standard cropped cardigans haven't been required, and honestly some days I haven't felt like putting in any effort at all.
«It's a lot of
mental effort getting back into working on a game that I worked on for 18 months straight.
This is because students may be behaviorally and / or emotionally invested in a given activity without actually exerting the
necessary mental effort to understand and master the knowledge, craft, or skill that the activity promotes.
It takes
real mental effort to continuously troll, get called out, and then insist that hundreds of people are just blind to your version of the truth because they are «fanboys» (or NDFers if you're 12, from Florida, and like Far Cry 5).
Not only do you put in a lot of emotional and
mental effort thinking up and creating individual pieces and performances, but then you have to spend time figuring out how to get the word out about your work and how to sell it.
Spencer wrote that the ideal writer «present [s] ideas that they may be apprehended [by the reader] with the least
possible mental effort»:
While sometimes it seems like we can effortlessly and automatically meet our partners» needs, there are other times when we have to exert some
extra mental effort to get past our own self - serving desires.
Whenever I would buy really cute madras or printed shorts for my guys, I realized that 1) I never remembered that I had them and 2) it was too
much mental effort to make an outfit with them.
Trying to stuff over 100 hours of gameplay into a two - hour movie is a doomed effort, and it results in what the Washington Post's Stephanie Merry called a «convoluted mess of an introduction [that] requires
more mental effort than any movie this idiotic deserves.»
For everything else — odds and ends that can be done quickly or require
less mental effort — he reserves for the late afternoon.
You can cause some brief moments of uncoupling the quartets if you expend
intense mental effort, but their natural state in your perception is to remain synchronized.
Mental «emancipation» can be a very good thing, of course, when it removes the chains of misinformation and when it arouses a thirst for the truth that can be satisfied only by hard,
honest mental effort.
Even sitting in the middle of a cinema I was forced to use uncanny amounts of
mental effort just to piece together every conversation.