Pictures, Imagery, and Retarded Children's Prose Learning.

Bender, Bruce G.; Levin, Joel R.

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ERIC Number: EJ195524

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Publication Date: 1978-Aug

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Pictures, Imagery, and Retarded Children's Prose Learning.

Bender, Bruce G.; Levin, Joel R.

Journal of Educational Psychology, v70 n4 p583-88 Aug 1978

Four groups of 10- to 16-year-old educable mental retardates listened to a 20-sentence story; subjects (1) viewed pictures; (2) generated mental pictures; (3) heard each sentence twice; or (4) listened to the story once. Recall of story information was highest for those who viewed pictures. (Author/GDC)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Learning Activities, Listening Comprehension, Mild Mental Retardation, Pictorial Stimuli, Prose, Recall (Psychology), Redundancy, Story Telling, Visualization

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Language: English

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