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Download full textCalvert, Sandra L.; And Others – 1981
The purposes of this study were to provide information about how formal features of television are related to children's selective attention and to determine how selective attention is related, in turn, to comprehension of content. Formal features are defined as attributes of television productions that are relatively content-free and that result…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Cartoons
Young Children's Perception and Comprehension of Metaphorical Similarities in Pictures and in Words.
Epstein, R. L.; Gamlin, P. J. – 1987
This study was designed to determine whether children 3, 4, and 5 years of age could demonstrate their metaphorical competence equally well in words and in pictures. Previous studies which have investigated young children's metaphorical ability have often encouraged young children to make judgments of similarity which rely almost exclusively on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedPlanalp, Sally; And Others – Communication Monographs, 1987
Investigates (in two phases) how coherence is cued between turns in conversations. Indicates that (1) turns were consistently paired well beyond chance, suggesting that explicit cues to connections between turns in conversations do exist; and (2) only lexical devices were found significantly more often in coherent than incoherent pairs. (NKA)
Descriptors: Coherence, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comprehension
Edelstein, Ronald A. – 1981
Theories of cognitive processing suggest specific effects result from different elaboration treatments. To test this assumption, 125 high school students were randomly assigned to read concept materials containing adjunct elaborations that varied by elaboration type (mnemonics, schematics, or metaphors) and presentation mode (verbal or visual). To…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Instructional Design
Asp, Susan; And Others – 1979
This study indicates that the way in which stories are presented to children (verbal versus pictorial) makes little or no difference in the children's comprehension or recall of the stories. Ninety-six kindergarten and second grade children either looked at a series of pictures (and were told they formed a story) or listened to the story through a…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
Rieber, Lloyd P.; And Others – 1996
The purpose of this study was to explore how adult users interact and learn during a computer-based simulation given visual and verbal forms of feedback coupled with embedded elaborations of the content. A total of 52 college students interacted with a computer-based simulation of Newton's laws of motion in which they had control over the motion…
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
