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PICTURE ENRICHMENT OF DELAYED RECALL: SUPPORT FROM A UNIQUE SOURCE
Author(s) -
HARING MARILYN J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1982.tb02508.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , reading (process) , consistency (knowledge bases) , recall test , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , free recall , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , computer science
S ummary . Picture effects on consistency of recall (i.e., items remembered both immediately and after a delay) and recall of unique items (i.e., those remembered only after a delay) were examined by having 100 fourth‐ and sixth‐graders read a 360‐word story and write all they could remember of it immediately and also after five days. Half of the children received pictures with the story. Pupils receiving pictures with text recalled details more consistently than pupils reading text without pictures, and sixth‐graders recalled main ideas and also details more consistently than fourth‐graders. Recall of fourth‐graders was characterised by higher proportions of unique main ideas and details. In a significant interaction, pictures facilitated proportionate unique recall of details for sixth‐graders but not for fourth‐graders.