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Leopold, Claudia; Mayer, Richard E.; Dutke, Stephan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
In 2 experiments, college students read a 4-paragraph text on how the human circulatory system works and were instructed to form a mental image of the events described in each paragraph from the perspective of their own body (first-person perspective group) or from the perspective of a fictitious person facing them (third-person perspective…
Descriptors: Imagination, Visualization, Reader Text Relationship, Science Curriculum
Leopold, Claudia; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Asking students to imagine the spatial arrangement of the elements in a scientific text constitutes a learning strategy intended to foster deep processing of the instructional material. Two experiments investigated the effects of mental imagery prompts on learning from scientific text. Students read a computer-based text on the human respiratory…
Descriptors: Imagination, Scientific and Technical Information, Learning Strategies, Instructional Materials

Pierce, Jean W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
The relation between imagery-assisted prose recall and field independence was found to be significantly stronger than the relation between control recall and field independence for third graders, but not for kindergartners. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Cues, Grade 3