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Desmond, Kathleen Kadon; Koroscik, Judith Smith – 1984
The effect of verbal contextual information on junior high school students' categorization of differences among photographic art was examined. Photographs of varying levels of abstraction were presented to the viewers both with and without correct and erroneous titles that referred to descriptive or interpretive information. Twelve students…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Art Appreciation, Context Effect, Cues
Newby, Timothy J.; Stepich, Donald A. – Journal of Instructional Development, 1987
Examines the differences between concrete and abstract concepts and their implications for instructional design and teaching. How specific concepts are stored in and retrieved from memory is described, analogies are discussed as an instructional tool in abstract concept learning, and a possible instructional strategy for teaching abstract concepts…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching