Cognitive load and the imagination effect

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 857-875

  Leahy, Wayne ^a   Sweller, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; STUDENT; TEACHING; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

EID: 8644256940     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1061     Document Type: Article

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