Question

List at least three signal words the professor uses in the video. How did he use the signal words?

This video shows Dr. William Winn speaking:

The video is below in word format.

There is a theory which holds that when we solve problems, and when we learn we typically don't do so, or we do better if we share the - there is the phrase cognitive load - we share the load of solving the problem with other people and other things, other devices. The..again, the sort of paradigmatic case for that is a vignette by Hutchins in his book…the name of his book Cognition in the Wild where he describes how the crew of a navy ship brings the ship into San Diego harbor. And he describes the people out on the wings of the bridge taking bearings. He describes the people operating the sonar. He describes the people doing the radar. He describes the people plotting the course. He describes the people giving the orders to the guy at the helm and the guy at the helm…There are two points: The first is that no single person at any one time has all the information to make the decision about what to do. The first one, in this sense, is distributive. The second thing is that the distribution occurs amongst many people, but amongst devices, so you don't distinguish between a range finder, or a radar scope, which is a machine, and the person that's operating it. They're all part of the same system. So, basically then, that's what we mean by distributive cognition and again it ties very closely to this notion that learning and problem solving and thinking and all the things we do are social.

Answer 1

Answer:The professor uses the following signal words in the video: "theory," "paradigmatic case," and "first." He uses the word "theory" to introduce the concept of cognitive load and how it relates to sharing the load of solving problems with others. He uses the phrase "paradigmatic case" to describe the example of the navy ship bringing the ship into San Diego harbor, which is a classic example of distributive cognition. Finally, he uses the word "first" to describe the first point of distributive cognition, which is that no single person has all the information to make a decision.