Purpose: This paper aims to describe a method of teaching that is based on Novak's concept-mapping technique. Design/methodology/approach: The paper shows how concept mapping can be used to measure prior knowledge and how simple mapping exercises can promote the integration of teachers' and students' understandings in ways that are meaningful.…

Volunteer non-major chemistry students taking an introductory university chemistry course (n = 17) were interviewed about their understanding of a variety of chemical diagrams. All the students' interviewed appreciated that diagrams of laboratory equipment were useful to show how to set up laboratory equipment. However students' ability to explain…

Examined relationships of nightmare frequency to hypnotic ability, vividness of visual imagery, and the tendency to become absorbed in fantasy-like experiences. Use of Mark's Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire, and Rotenberg and Bowers' Absorption scale showed individuals with frequent nightmares to score higher on hypnotizability,…

Through sports and games, anyone can reach states of extraordinary intensity, and through literature, nonathletes can also approach those states. Literature dramatizes, captures, and preserves the experiences encountered in sport better than any other medium. (MSE)

Students have experiences, during the school year, which enrich their understanding and knowledge of each other. Activities are described to enhance students' abilities to recognize and recall and to provide enjoyable, meaningful memories for students. (CB)

Investigates the role active, self-produced movement might play in the type of rotation task typically used to assess spatial orientation in children 12 months to 18 months of age. Results indicated that, at least at 12 months, spatial orientation was indeed facilitated by allowing the infants (n = 13) to move through space on their own. (RH)

Discusses three experiments which provide evidence for the conclusions that hypermnesia (increased recall with repeated testing) does not depend on the encoding of material in an imaginal format but is related to the level of recall across conditions within an experiment. (EKN)

Examines sources available for developing a theory of visual literacy and attempts to clarify the meaning of the term. Suggests that visual thinking, a concept supported by recent research on mental imagery, visualization, and dual coding, ought to be the emphasis for future theory development. (FL)

Discusses teachers' use of mental imagery and metaphors in classroom planning. Topics include visualizing, analogies, educational technology as metaphor, malapropisms and mixing theoretical metaphors, designing instruction for the acquisition of abstract concepts, and examples of metaphors of novice and experienced teachers. (LRW)

Investigates how mode of imagery affects imagined interactions and the relationship between affective processing and imagined interaction. Shows that (1) verbal imagery is associated with self-dominance, rehearsal, and understanding whereas visual imagery is associated with more pleasantness; and (2) pleasant imagined interactions are lower in…

Demonstrates visualization techniques using the tuple frequency method that helps organize data generated in computational studies of literary style. Two-dimensional representations of the style of the authors of "The Federalist Papers" are explained that were used to determine the authorship of unattributed papers. (Contains 13…

Finds that people with communication apprehension (CA) who were exposed to visualization reported lower trait and state CA as well as higher attraction levels than those in control or placebo conditions. (SR)