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Direct linkTristan H. S. de Jonge; Anna Berti; Sanne van Schijndel; Margot van Wermeskerken; Ellen Kok – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
The coherence principle suggests removing unnecessary--or seductive--content from educational texts to reduce cognitive load. However, the binary proposition that all seductive details should be excluded neglects images' potential to prime semantically related concepts, which makes texts easier to process. It was hypothesized that this priming…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Schemata (Cognition)
