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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:23 JST Cat Hicks

   I'm going to get a dig about how people use "cognitive load" when they mean "allostatic load" into this manuscript if it kills me

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:21 JST Cat Hicks

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     in that book will be a chapter about how pure "cognition" approaches to education, human learning and human achievement have ALL PRETTY MUCH FAILED TO BE PREDICTIVELY AND INTERVENTION TARGET VALUABLE for the OUTCOMES WE CARE ABOUT and SHOULDN'T SET THE STANDARD FOR WORKPLACES even when we have a population of people who will only accept "human stuff" being said about them if you make it COMPUTATIONAL SOUNDING

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:22 JST Cat Hicks

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     If the only thing we had to do was optimize for some small improvements in working memory on discrete task performance, things would be a LOT. EASIER.

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:22 JST Cat Hicks

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     also reducing "load" doesn't always "increase cognitive resources" because of unexpected penalties to cognition and problem-solving in ways that we frequently are wrong about; the evidence is really very mixed

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:22 JST Cat Hicks

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     from that same source: "CLT was never claimed to be a learning theory [...] [no developments in the theory] have challenged the basic assumptions drawn from the computational models of the mind that inspired the theory" 🤷♀️

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:22 JST Cat Hicks

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     I need to do my own actual work which is advancing good theory, but there is a second, meaner book inside of me about bad theory.

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:23 JST Cat Hicks

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     IF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WORKPLACE STRESS. YOU ARE NOT. TALKING. ABOUT. COGNITIVE. LOAD. I would accept "mental load" (even though that is really just casual speak) but it's not cognitive load

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:23 JST Cat Hicks

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     if you're asking people to rate how "overwhelmed they are" on a scale that's not cognitive load

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:53:23 JST Cat Hicks

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     "The cognitive load construct is similar to the workload construct in that it takes into consideration the demands that a certain task imposes on an individual. However, it does not take into consideration the psychological effects that individuals' beliefs, expectations, and goals have on their load perceptions. This has been argued to be one of the limitations of CLT" - Plass, J. L., Moreno, R., & Brünken, R. (Eds.). (2010). Cognitive load theory.

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:55:52 JST Cat Hicks

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     or in other words