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Download full textCycowicz, Yael M.; And Others – 1994
Pictures are often used by cognitive psychologists to investigate the development of cognitive functions. Different attributes of the picture, such as object or picture familiarity, word frequency, and age of acquisition, are known to correlate with naming latency and to affect memory, particularly retrieval processes. But without the use of…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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This study examines how task characteristics (the number of visual chunks and the amount of planning time) and test-taker characteristics (graph familiarity) influence the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in graph comprehension, the strategies used in describing graphs, and the scores obtained on the graph description task in a…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Familiarity, Graphs, Cognitive Processes
