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Wilgosh, Lorraine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
The effect of labels influences nursery school children to process or store information about associated pictures more effectively than they would have done in the absence of labels. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Memory, Pictorial Stimuli, Preschool Children
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Ritchey, Gary H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1982
Specific comparisons for a categorized set of items indicated that recall of detailed drawings and outlines was superior to recall of words. For an uncategorized set, outlines were recalled significantly better than pictures and both were recalled better than words. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Associative Learning, Elementary Education
Higgins, Norman C. – 1972
The lack of standardization in research involving pictorial variables has made it difficult to clarify the functions of pictorial stimuli in learning. This study sought to determine whether selected methods of rendering pictorial illustrations influenced the number and type of descriptive words evoked in a verbal association task. Normally the…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Audiovisual Aids, Experimental Psychology
Clement, Joseph David – 1975
To explore methods of visual communication as a supplement to bilingual education, 200 white male subjects were selected from a public school system in South Florida (100 from the first grade and 100 from the eighth grade) and were allowed to create visual statements from a standardized set of photos. Using primarily Latent Partition Analysis, the…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bilingual Education, Educational Media, Elementary Education
Greenfield, Patricia Marks; Alvarez, Maria Gabriela – 1978
Nonverbal context is important in the language acquisition process. The present study compares different amounts and ordering of pictorial context with respect to their effect on learning word-referent relations in a second language. Twenty-five monolingual English-speaking high school students were shown twenty Spanish sentences and pictures of…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues