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ERIC Number: EJ560300
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Mechanisms that Facilitate the Effectiveness of Elaboration Strategies.
Willoughby, Teena; Wood, Eileen; Desmarais, Serge; Sims, Suzanne; Kalra, Michelle
Journal of Educational Psychology, v89 n4 p682-85 Dec 1997
The role of distinctiveness in the differential memory performance of visual and verbal elaboration strategies was studied with 28 undergraduates who learned information about familiar and unfamiliar animals using visual or verbal elaboration strategies. Imagery-using students organized unfamiliar animal information into intact sets more than verbal elaboration students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies, Memory, Undergraduate Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Elaboration
Note: Research supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 1995).