Empirical Perspectives on Memory and Motivation

Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 39-54

  Seel, Norbert M ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information processing: The modeling of sensory input and cognitive transformations as a series of processing stages.; Memory: The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences.; Mental model: A mental representation that people use to organize their experience about themselves, others, the environment, and the things with which they interact; its functional role is to provide predictive and explanatory power for understanding these phenomena.; Schemata: Data structures for representing both generic and specific knowledge.

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053321215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203880869-6     Document Type: Chapter

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