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EVALUATING THE PICTURE FACILITATION EFFECT IN CHILDREN'S RECALL OF WRITTEN TEXTS
Author(s) -
RUSTED JENNIFER,
HODGSON SANDRA
Publication year - 1985
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.2044-8279.1985.tb02634.x
Subject(s) - facilitation , recall , psychology , free recall , differential effects , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , neuroscience , medicine
S ummary . Forty nine‐year‐old children were required to read either factual or fictitious passages, presented with or without a relevant picture. Immediate free recall performance revealed a pictorial facilitation effect, the nature of which differed according to the type of passage. Pictures presented with story passages enhanced the recall of illustrated aspects of the text only, while those presented with factual passages enhanced the recall of both illustrated and unillustrated text content. This differential facilitation effect was related to the qualitatively different role that pictures play during encoding of the two types of texts.