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Appelman, Bob – 1996
In an instructional message the contextual dominance is most often conveyed in the form of printed or spoken sentences. Within any sentence used in conjunction with a picture are nouns or phrases that directly relate to contextual elements within the picture. These are called referents since they refer to objects perceptible in the picture. This…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Information Processing
Szabo, Michael; And Others – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1981
Investigates the role of visuals in the instructional and evaluation phases of a high school biology unit on the human heart. Results indicate that the instructional strategy of implementing visualization in both the presentation and evaluation phases is a viable instructional variable. Forty-four references are listed. (Author/MER)
Descriptors: Biology, Evaluation Methods, Information Processing, Media Selection

Corcoran, Farrel; Schneider, Michael J. – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Explores the social correlates of the interpretive abilities of young children to assess televised narratives. Demonstrates negative correlations between amount of television viewed by parents and children's television comprehension, indicating that the more parents viewed television, the worse their children performed on comprehension tests.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Information Processing, Interpretive Skills
Dwyer, Francis M.; Moore, David M. – 1995
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect that coding (black and white, and color) and testing mode (visual/verbal) has on the achievement of students categorized as field independent (FID)/field dependent (FD) learners. One hundred eighty-three students enrolled in basic college level educational psychology courses were classified as…
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Style, College Students, Color