The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 2,888 atoms across 3 types and 2 molecules
Memory encoding depth, determined by the degree of elaborative processing and integration with existing knowledge structures, directly determines long-term retention and retrievability.
Cognitive development occurs through equilibration—the resolution of tension between existing schemas and new experience via assimilation (fitting new information to existing schemas) or accommodation (modifying schemas when assimilation fails sufficiently to produce cognitive disequilibrium).