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Peer reviewedMcLeskey, James – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The influence of verbal and written labels on selective attention to visual materials was examined with retarded children. Under treatment conditions, retarded and normal children located an object more quickly, looked at it longer, and recognized more objects on a recognition-memory task. These results may be applied to materials development.…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
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
