Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), developed by John Sweller in the 1980s, focuses on the limitations of working memory and the strategies to optimize learning. It emphasizes managing cognitive load to enhance educational outcomes. Key Principles Intrinsic Load: Refers to the inherent difficulty of the material being learned. It depends on the complexity and interactivity of …
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The Spiral of Growth: Exploring Jung’s Theory of Type Development
In the realm of personality psychology, Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types offers profound insights into how individuals develop and use their cognitive functions. Whether we lean toward sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, these functions exist within us from birth and shape how we process the world. However, developing these functions is a lifelong …
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Untangling Double Binds in Communication
A double bind is a paradoxical situation that arises within the context of interpersonal communication. This double bind situation involves one of the individuals receiving conflicting messages on different levels of communication. Moreover, regardless of the individual's response to the message, the result is some form of punishment. In their paper "Toward a Theory of …
An Analysis of Initial Conditions
One of the principle issues in philosophy is causality. Whether engaged in from an academic viewpoint or not the matter of causality is inescapable. In order to have an ordered view of our worlds’, we must have some degree of an organizing principle. And, in order to do this, we also must be able to …
Thoughts for Ponderance: Humility & Inquiry
There is always more to be drawn out from the shadows—as long as light continues to shine. The scope of the unknowable is and will always be unknown; through repetition and indirect of methods of approximations, the distance between the known and unknown can be lessened, inferences and hypotheses can be made with reasonable certainty. …
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A Two Sided Truth 