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cognitive load

cognitive load noun: the used amount of working memory resources.

Noun

cognitive load (plural cognitive loads)

  1. (cognitive psychology) The used amount of working memory resources.
    • I've never felt more comfortable moving across our family of devices as a user, which I do hundreds of times a day than I do now, moving between iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOS Big Sur. They all just feel of a family – there's just less cognitive load to the switching process.2020 November 13, Andrew Griffin, quoting Craig Federighi, “Apple tells us how it made its new chip and MacBooks”, in The Independent

Forms of cognitive load

pluralcognitive loads

Questions about cognitive load

What does cognitive load mean?
Cognitive load means the used amount of working memory resources.
What part of speech is cognitive load?
Cognitive load is a noun.
What is the plural of cognitive load?
The plural of cognitive load is cognitive loads.

Words near cognitive load in the dictionary

  1. cognitive dissonances
  2. cognitive distortion
  3. cognitive dysfunction syndrome
  4. cognitive estrangement
  5. cognitive linguistics
  6. cognitive load
  7. cognitive loads
  8. cognitive parallax
  9. cognitive poetics
  10. cognitive psychology
  11. cognitive relativism

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