Comprehension and memory for pictures
The thesis advanced is that people remember nonsensical pictures much better if they comprehend what they are about. Two experiments supported this thesis. In the first, nonsensical "droodles" were studied by subjects with or without an accompanying verbal interpretation of the pictures. Free recall was much better for subjects receiving the interpretation during study. Also, a later recognition test showed that subjects receiving the interpretation rated as more similar to the original picture a distractor which was close to the prototype of the interpreted category. In Experiment II, subjects studied pairs of nonsensical pictures, with or without a linking interpretation provided. Subjects who heard a phrase identifying and interrelating the pictures of a pair showed greater associative recall and matching than subjects who received no interpretation. The results suggest that memory is aided whenever contextual cues arouse appropriate schemata into which the material to be learned can be fitted.
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1975 |
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1975 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:3 |
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Memory & cognition - 3(1975), 2 vom: 07. März, Seite 216-20 |
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Englisch |
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Bower, G H [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 02.10.2012 Date Revised 02.02.2011 published: Print Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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10.3758/BF03212900 |
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