A Picture Is Not Always Worth a Thousand Words: Pictures as Distractors in Reading.

Willows, Dale M.

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Publication Date: 1978

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A Picture Is Not Always Worth a Thousand Words: Pictures as Distractors in Reading

Willows, Dale M.

Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, 2, 255-62, Apr 78

Children read sets of words under three conditions: with no pictures, with related pictures, and with unrelated pictures. Results indicated that words were read more slowly whenever pictures were present; that unrelated pictures produced more interference than related pictures; and that both effects were inversely related to reading ability. (Author/JAC)

Descriptors: Attention Control, Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Differences, Pictorial Stimuli, Primary Education, Proximity, Reading Ability, Reading Processes, Reading Rate

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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