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Dean, Raymond S. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1984
The degree to which concreteness of prose material presented in an auditory fashion would interact with learners' lateral preference under different right hemispheric presentation conditions was investigated with 96 adults. Subjects recalled a greater number of ideas when the passage was concrete. Abstractness interacted with cerebral dominance.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning

Dunham, Trudy C.; Levin, Joel R. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
Kindergarten and first-grade children listened to a narrative passage under one of five experimental conditions. Prelearning imagery instructions did not facilitate subsequent recall of story information. Similarly intermittently provided pictures did not produce recall gains for unpictured story information, but had a positive effect on recall of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, Learning Processes, Pictorial Stimuli

Hall, Donald M., Hughes, Jan N. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1984
A paired-associate memory task with pictures and words as items was used to categorize fourth graders into four learner types (high/low picture x high/low word performance). Poor paired-associate learners profited more than did good paired-associate learners from picture aids on the prose task. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes, Memory