Commentary: Should Gender Differences be Included in the Evolutionary Upgrade to Cognitive Load Theory?

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• 作者：Andy Bevilacqua
• 关键词：Cognitive load theory ; Evolutionary educational psychology ; Gender
• 刊名：Educational Psychology Review
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：29
• 期：1
• 页码：189-194
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Educational Psychology; Child and School Psychology; Learning and Instruction;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-336X
• 卷排序：29

文摘

Recent upgrades to cognitive load theory suggest that evolutionary processes have shaped the way that working memory processes cultural and social information. According to evolutionarily educational psychologists, some forms of information are processed with lower working memory loads than other forms. The former are evolutionarily salient and the latter historically recent and evolutionarily novel. Sex differences in evolutionary pressures have resulted in some differences in aspects of associated working memory systems that are relevant to cognitive load theory. For this reason this paper suggests that gender differences in information processing via evolutionary processes is an important consideration that should be added to current theory.