Do Verbal Descriptions Facilitate Visual Inferences?.

Kunen, Seth; Duncan, Edward M.

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ERIC Number: EJ288976

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Publication Date: 1983

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Do Verbal Descriptions Facilitate Visual Inferences?

Kunen, Seth; Duncan, Edward M.

Journal of Educational Research, v76 n6 p370-73 Jul-Aug 1983

The value of verbal labeling is shown by a study of fourth-grade, eighth-grade, and college students who were shown pictures accompanied by short verbal descriptions. Verbal descriptions increased correct recognitions and rejections of unrelated distractors, while increasing false recognition of related distractors. Results were consistent for all ages. (Author/PP)

Descriptors: College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8, Memory, Pictorial Stimuli, Recognition (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Verbal Learning, Verbal Stimuli, Visual Learning

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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