Imagery/Concreteness Attributes of Advance Organizers.

Newell, John M.; Olejnik, Stephen F.

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ERIC Number: EJ280288

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Publication Date: 1982

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Imagery/Concreteness Attributes of Advance Organizers.

Newell, John M.; Olejnik, Stephen F.

Journal of Experimental Education, v51 n2 p69-74 Win 1982-83

This study demonstrated a reliable method of determining the attributes of prose materials on an imagery-concreteness scale, and evaluated the effects of an advance organizer and a learning passage on learning and retention when the attributes of these passages are defined on a concrete-imagery continuum. (Author/PN)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Imagery, Learning Processes, Prose, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology), Semantic Differential

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Language: English

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