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Cimbalo, Richard S.; Siska, Bonnie Lou – 1982
A study tested the theory that an item that stands out from its background is better remembered than one that is similar to the background (the isolation effect). Specifically, the study examined whether the isolation effect would be greater when there was a larger and more confusing mass of background items, whether position of the isolated item…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory
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Dwyer, Francis M. – Reading Psychology, 1988
Argues that the use of visuals specifically designed to complement printed instruction can significantly improve student achievement of certain types of educational objectives, but that visualization itself represents only a mild rehearsal strategy which will not always optimize student achievement of the more complex levels of learning. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Reading Research, Schemata (Cognition)
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Curtiss, Deborah – Reading Psychology, 1988
Describes a college teaching experience in which active visual analysis (hands-on deconstruction of visual statements to their constituent elements and principles) had an unblocking effect on concomitant writing assignments. Suggests that students can improve both verbal and visual articulateness when modes of perceiving and thinking are used…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Research, Teaching Methods, Verbal Learning
Blanchard, Harry E. – 1986
A series of studies investigated the manner in which information is utilized during fixations in continuous reading. Utilization refers to visual information being processed to further the comprehension of the text being read, in contrast to registration, which refers to visual information simply being available to the brain. The studies…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Higher Education, Memory
Woodley, John W. – 1984
To gain a better understanding of visual perception in reading, a study tested the predictive validity of the Goodman Model of Reading by measuring the extent to which 82 college students (graduate and undergraduate) were able to perceive and accurately report 10 lines of print. It also attempted to integrate research conducted over the past 100…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Reader Text Relationship
Massaro, Dominic W.; And Others – 1980
A study assessed the role of orthographic structure in college students' perceptual recognition and judgment of letter strings. Lexical status, word frequency, bigram frequency, log bigram frequency, and regularity of letter sequencing were orthogonally varied across a series of experiments. Six-letter words and their anagrams were used as test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Bartels, Laura Grand; Feinbloom, Jessica – 1981
Ten concrete nouns represented in either a pictorial or a linguistic mode and accompanied by ten nonsense syllables were shown to 77 college students in a study of how pictorial stimuli varied in recall and recognition tasks. The group receiving pictorial stimuli recalled and recognized significantly more nonsense syllables than did the group…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Modalities
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Whyte, Jean; Harland, Rosemary – Reading Psychology, 1984
Concludes that there may be differential effectiveness of method of reading instruction according to sex, with females finding letter training simpler than word training and males finding the reverse. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Females, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
Whyte, Jean; Harland, Rosemary – 1981
A study investigated the proposition that males have a predominant tendency to encode visually when reading, whereas females tend to encode phonologically. Arabic symbols were used to teach a group of 24 college students to "read." Subjects were assigned randomly to one of two conditions: learning the symbols as "letters" one by one with the aid…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, Learning Modalities