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Mays, Luberta – 1979
Knowledge of how children "read" television pictures can provide understanding of how powerful a tool television is for teaching and learning. It affects the images viewers have of themselves and of the world. Turning off television is not only turning off experiences but also turning off opportunities for learning as well as preventing youngsters…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Pictorial Stimuli
Naour, Paul; Martin, Daniel – 1984
Twelve learning disabled (9-12 years old) boys were identified according to special class placement, WISC-R (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised) and performance measures. A group demonstrating a verbal WISC-R deficit was sex- and age-matched with a normal group. Electroencephalograms (EEGs) were collected while these individuals…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Electroencephalography, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities
Ragan, Tillman J. – 1978
This paper presents the thesis that a perceptual rationale for visual literacy may be found in operational form within what is measured by established tests of cognitive style. Ten primary dimensions of cognitive style are briefly reviewed, including field independence-field dependence, impulsivity-reflectivity, visual-haptic, leveling-sharpening,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Educational Research
Salomon, Gavriel; Cohen, Akiba A. – 1976
An experiment was conducted in which the relationships of basic television and film codes to particular literacy mental skills were examined. Different versions of the same film, each focusing on a different code, were produced and shown to fifth graders. It was found that children with initially better mastery of the relevant skills extract more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Perception
John, Martha Tyler – 1985
Because understanding pictures is a significant aid to readers, this paper explores research on picture interpretation. The paper describes the complexity of the process and states that the ability to interpret pictures seems to proceed from the simple to the complex: from concrete experiences with pictures to the abstract interpretation of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Illustrations, Interpretive Skills
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; And Others – 1977
In order to enhance the understanding of visual literacy, one of its constituents, visual learning (VL), is examined in terms of underlying assumptions, hypothesized behaviors, and implications of both assumptions and behaviors. Assumptions are: (1) VL encompasses all changes in behavior arising from the individual's responses to visual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Learning Readiness, Maturation
Ives, William; Houseworth, Marguerite – 1978
Aspects of children's early representational drawing ability may provide evidence for feature marking in non-linguistic symbol systems. To test this assumption children in kindergarten, second, and fourth grade were asked to draw a set of referent objects in three conditions: a nominal or standard condition with no implied relationship ("two…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Cognitive Development
Corsale, Kathleen – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children as young as second-graders could encode categorically within an abstract evaluative dimension. The study uses mode of stimulus presentation (auditory or visual) as an independent variable. The subjects were 40 white middle class children from grades 2, 4, and 6, who were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
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Miller, Laverne – Educational Media International, 1994
Examines educational film and video as an affective or cognitive learning tool. Suggestions are given on how to select a film for a particular lesson; how to prepare students for viewing; how to structure a lesson including the language arts; and how students can be led to improved visual literacy though analysis of form and structure. (Author/KRN)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Definitions, Educational Television
Means, Barbara M.; Rohwer, William D., Jr. – 1976
To assess the importance of visual attributes relative to acoustic and semantic attributes in children's encoding, a 64-item recognition test was administered to first- and sixth-grade children. Recognition items were linedrawings of simple objects accompanied by aural labels. By manipulating the picture, label, and referent in various…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Debes, John L., III – 1974
For the past 100 years we have been acting as if education in school was of words, by words, and for words, but in fact verbal literacy was preceded by visual literacy when humans communicated with body language before they had speech. American educators have been concentrating efforts on the left hemisphere of the brain in which the verbal…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Development, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Quotient
Corcos, Evelyne; Willows, Dale M. – 1989
A study investigated the development of information processing as it relates to the development of reading skills by studying how good readers and poor readers utilized orthographic information. Subjects, 90 good and poor readers from grades 2, 4, and 6, participated in four 30-minute sessions in which they were required to make a same/different…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Hakerem, Gita; And Others – 1993
The Water and Molecular Networks (WAMNet) Project uses graduate student written Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) computer simulations of the molecular structure of water to assist high school students learn about the nature of water. This study examined: (1) preconceptions concerning the molecular structure of water common among high…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation