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Efficacy of objects, pictures and words in a simple learning task (1)
Author(s) -
Deregowski Jan B.,
Jahoda Gustav
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207597508247317
Subject(s) - psychology , forgetting , humanities , task (project management) , art , communication , cognitive psychology , economics , management
Adult subjects were required to memorise positions associated with twelve common objects, their pictures and their names. Both written and spoken names were used. It was found that learning was fastest with the objects and slowest with verbal symbols, and that pictures occupied an intermediate position. The data suggest that the errors observed are partly due to differential forgetting of various types of stimuli and partly perhaps to differential difficulty in making deductions from them.