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Peer reviewedAnderson, Richard C.; Kulhavy, Raymond W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
From evidence of this study it appears that a person will learn more from a prose passage if he forms images of the things and events described in the passage. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, High School Students, Imagery, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedBellezza, Francis S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
A spatial-arrangement or word-arrangement mnemonic experiment was conducted in which college students studied six lists of 12 words each under conditions of word pattern and/or mnemonic instruction. Both the link mnemonic and distinctive word arrangements enhanced recall during acquisition, but only word-arrangement had a significant effect on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Mnemonics, Recall (Psychology)
Peer reviewedSalomon, Gavriel – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Films, Grade 8, Grade 9
Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C.; Wilce, Lee S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Mnemonic value of spellings in a paired-associate sound learning task was examined in first and second graders. Learning was fastest when correct spellings were seen or imagined. The preferred interpretation was that spellings are effective because they provide readers with orthographic images for symbolizing and storing sounds in memory.…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Mnemonics
Peer reviewedGuttmann, Joseph; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
Investigations of the effects of visual imagery and pictorial stimuli on young children's oral prose learning indicated: (1) age differences affect the ability to profit from self-generated imagery; (2) experimenter-provided cues help to generate imagery; and (3) the type of cue provided relates to the kind of information recalled. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aural Learning, Learning Processes, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedMallory, William A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Purpose of the study was to investigate those stable characteristics of children which allow some to learn more efficiently under some conditions and others to learn more efficiently under other conditions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedGustafsson, Jan-Eric – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
The effects of imagery instructions on fifth-graders with differing abilities were examined through within-class analysis and analysis in which class effects were allowed to have influence. In the latter analysis there were significant Aptitude X Treatment interactions with subscores derived from paired-associate tasks. Interactions were…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDelaney, Harold D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
The effects of elaboration instructions and imagery characteristics of verbal material on learning of Malay--English word pairs were investigated, as well as the moderating effects of individual differences. Results reflect aptitude X treatment interactions and the importance of individual differences in planning instructional methods. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Ability, Higher Education, Individual Differences
