- Roughly: how hard working memory is working.
- Task-switch-lite makes you hold a rule, drop it, and pick another.
- Holding two streams is a classic load.
- No.
- For real study, cut unnecessary split attention when you can.
- Try task-switch-lite, dual-n-back-lite, or flanker-lite to feel conflict and load.
What is cognitive load?
Roughly: how hard working memory is working. Intrinsic difficulty of the material, extraneous clutter, and useful generative effort are often distinguished in education research.
Why do switches feel heavy?
Task-switch-lite makes you hold a rule, drop it, and pick another. That control cost is a small load demonstration, not a clinical executive battery.
Dual n-back?
Holding two streams is a classic load. Dual-n-back-lite is a lite toy; it does not measure IQ and far transfer is mixed.
Is load the same as IQ?
No. People with more WM capacity may handle load better on average, but load is a property of the task-plus-person moment, not a substitute for a normed battery.
Learning design takeaway?
For real study, cut unnecessary split attention when you can. That advice is general; this site is not a school.
How should I practice here?
Try task-switch-lite, dual-n-back-lite, or flanker-lite to feel conflict and load. Hits stay game scores.
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