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ERIC Number: EJ389955
Record Type: CIJE
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
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Prose Learning; Text Processing (Reading)
Note: Paper presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 5-9, 1988).