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Pressley, Michael – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
The keyword method helped elementary school children learn Spanish vocabulary, especially when they were provided with relevant visual images. The Spanish word was associated with an English keyword sounding like the foreign word, and the picture illustrated some interaction between the keyword and the English translation. (GDC)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Associative Learning, Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education
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Aguado, Luis; Pierna, Manuel; Saugar, Cristina – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2005
Three experiments explored the effect of affectively congruent or incongruent primes on evaluation responses to positive or negative valenced targets (the "affective priming" effect). Experiment 1 replicated the basic affective priming effect with Spanish nouns: reaction time for evaluative responses (pleasant/unpleasant) were slower on…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reaction Time, Nouns, Associative Learning