Illustrations as Adjuncts to Prose: A Text-Appropriate Processing Approach.

Waddill, Paula J.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1988

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Illustrations as Adjuncts to Prose: A Text-Appropriate Processing Approach.

Waddill, Paula J.; And Others

Journal of Educational Psychology, v80 n4 p457-64 Dec 1988

The effects of pictorial illustrations on memory for text were studied in 144 college students. Two experiments indicated that illustrations serve a supplementary function; adjunct pictures alone, without special processing instructions, do not help learners encode information that is not normally encoded in the first place. (SLD)

Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Illustrations, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes, Memorization, Memory, Pictorial Stimuli, Prose, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology), Undergraduate Students

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Language: English

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