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Bond, Charles F., Jr. – 1979
Social facilitation as a self-presentational display, and social performance impairment attributable to perceived public failure, are examined in a study of context effects in verbal learning. Female undergraduates (N=72) served as subjects with one male who served as an "audience." Performance data indicate that, consistent with the present…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Failure, Females, Learning
Peer reviewedDwyer, Francis M., Jr. – Harvard Educational Review, 1967
Reports on the effectiveness of visual illustrations used in conjunction with oral instructions. Results indicate that the reduction of realistic detail in an illustration does not necessarily reduce its instructional effectiveness and in many cases improves it. There were also significant differences in the effectiveness of different types of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Illustrations, Learning, Nonverbal Learning
Download full textWrobel, Patricia A.; And Others – 1967
Seventeen preschool children were administered two color-discrimination pretests, verbal and nonverbal. The five children who scored lowest were chosen to recieve the color program. Four scored elow 85 percent on the nonverbal pretest, whereas the other 12 children scored above 85 percent. On the verbal pretest, all five experimental subjects…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Discrimination Learning, Learning, Nonverbal Ability
