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Download full textMonson, Eileen Q.; Dawis, Rene V. – 1975
Verbal analogy items, consisting of an ambiguous stimulus word pair and two unambiguous response word pairs as choice alternatives, were presented to psychology students in a counterbalanced design to discover if preferences existed between the two competing relations in each item. The data were analyzed to see if these preferences ordered…
Descriptors: Analogy, Association Measures, Association (Psychology), Comprehension
Peer reviewedAnderson, John R.; Paulson, Rebecca – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
To determine whether different long-term memory representations are necessary for verbal and visual material, subjects studied faces composed of visual features or verbal facts composed of concepts. Findings showed interference between verbal and pictorial information, and supported the ACT theory that pictorial and verbal materials are stored…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Higher Education
Direct linkSwain, Jeff; Munyofu, Mine; Kidwai, Khusro; Lin, Huifen; Ausman, Bradley; Dwyer, Francis – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The purpose of this study was to test the principle of modality by using audio to deliver verbal information when that information is designed to support non-verbal information such as animations in a computer-based lesson. This was done by comparing the effect of two types of audio support mechanisms- a simple support mechanism consisting of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Verbal Stimuli, Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction
Brown, Alan S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
The effects of semantic (S), orthographic (O), and unrelated (U) verbal stimuli on word retrieval were examined. S stimuli inhibited locating items within categories, whereas U stimuli inhibited locating the appropriate category. The discrepancy between the present outcome and the previous finding of S prime retrieval facilitation is discussed.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Higher Education, Learning Problems, Memory
