Unveiling the Relationship of Mental Load and Academic Performance: An Analysis of Prose Memory Tasks

Abstract

Different tasks clearly require various levels of mental effort, with success or failure determined by how hard we effort. Difficulties can stimulate us to work harder in some circumstances. However, the broad consensus that stress, exhaustion, and mental load all have a major impact on the quality of human performance. In this sense, the current study seeks to investigate the relationship between mental effort and performance among postgraduate students, as well as to uncover its relationship with reverent demographics. The auditory verbal prose recall task was performed and the result found that as the complexity of mental load increase’s the performance of participants diminishes.