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Schroeder, Noah L.; Cenkci, Ada T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
The spatial split-attention principle suggests that presenting related words and pictures spatially close to one another will improve learning compared with a spatially distant design, and two meta-analyses have shown support for the principle. However, it is not clear why the principle occurs. It has been theorized that integrated graphic designs…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Attention, Multimedia Instruction, Pictorial Stimuli
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Baird, John C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1979
This article reviews two experiments on the mapping and planning of actual (campus buildings) and hypothetical (ideal town facilities) items in a two-dimensional space. Direct mapping (planning) techniques are preferred over the method of pair comparisons, especially for the actual environment. (See TM 504 879-880) (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Distance, Geographic Location, Higher Education