Editing Cognitive load (section)

==Effects of heavy cognitive load==
{{See also|Audience effect|Drive theory}}
A heavy cognitive load typically creates [[error]] or some kind of interference in the task at hand.<ref name="Paas, 1992"/><ref name="Moreno & Mayer, 1999"/><ref name="Mousavi, Low, & Sweller, 1995"/><ref name="Chandler and Sweller, 1992"/><ref name="Cooper & Sweller, 1987"/><ref name="Sweller & Cooper, 1985"/><ref name="Kalyuga, Ayres, Chandler, and Sweller, 2003"/> A heavy cognitive load can also increase [[Stereotype|stereotyping]].<ref name="Biernat et al. 2006">{{cite journal |last1=Biernat |first1=Monica |last2=Kobrynowicz |first2=Diane |last3=Weber |first3=Dara L. |title=Stereotypes and Shifting Standards: Some Paradoxical Effects of Cognitive Load |journal=Journal of Applied Social Psychology |date=October 2003 |volume=33 |issue=10 |pages=2060–2079 |doi=10.1111/j.1559-1816.2003.tb01875.x |doi-access=free }}</ref> This is because a heavy cognitive load pushes excess information into [[subconscious]] processing, which involves the use of [[Schema (psychology)|schemas]], the patterns of thought and behavior that help us to organize information into categories and identify the relationships between them.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cognitive Load Theory |url=https://www.cs.virginia.edu/luther/2910/F2021/clt.html |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=www.cs.virginia.edu}}</ref> Stereotypical associations may be automatically activated by the use of pattern recognition and schemas, producing an [[implicit stereotype]] effect.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hinton |first=Perry |date=2017-09-01 |title=Implicit stereotypes and the predictive brain: cognition and culture in "biased" person perception |journal=Palgrave Communications |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1057/palcomms.2017.86 |s2cid=54036730 |issn=2055-1045|doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Stereotype|Stereotyping]] is an extension of the [[Fundamental Attribution Error]] which also increases in frequency with heavier cognitive load.<ref name=Gilbert1989>Gilbert, D. T. (1989). [https://books.google.com/books?id=HT6ddclz6EAC&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189 Thinking lightly about others: Automatic components of the social inference process]. In J. S. Uleman & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), ''Unintended thought'' (pp. 189–211). New York, Guilford Press.</ref> The notions of cognitive load and [[arousal]] contribute to the "Overload Hypothesis" explanation of [[social facilitation]]: in the presence of an audience, subjects tend to perform worse in subjectively complex tasks (whereas they tend to excel in subjectively easy tasks).