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The previous chapters indicated that when dealing with biologically secondary information, human cognition requires a very large information store in order to function. Long-term memory constitutes that store. The bulk of the information held in long-term memory is acquired by borrowing information from other people’s long-term memories with smaller amounts of original information created by a random generate and test procedure.
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Sweller, J., Ayres, P., Kalyuga, S. (2011). Interacting with the External Environment: The Narrow Limits of Change Principle and the Environmental Organising and Linking Principle. In: Cognitive Load Theory. Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8126-4_4
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