USING OF HEURISTIC JUDGMENT IN CHOOSING ANSWERS OF CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING TEST

Abstract

This article presents the cognitive load in choosing answers to conceptual understanding
test of the human regulatory system. The purpose of this study is to find the influence of
cognitive load directly and indirectly on the variables that are identified. The research method
used was survey research and analyzed based on the path coefficient with the 8.72 Lisrel
program. The population in this study are students of class XI science from three schools in
Kabupaten Serang a numbers of 463 students and the sample taken a numbers of 215 students.
The results of this study indicate that there is a direct influence of cognitive load on heuristic
judgment. The effect directly have a significant positive effect directly, namely cognitive load
on working memory, and working memory on heuristic judgment. One hypothesis had a
significant indirect effect, namely cognitive load on heuristic judgment through working
memory.