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Koser, Sandra G.; Natkin, Gerald – 1972
The role of imagery formation as a mnemonic device in drawing valid inferences from a prose passage was studied. The 72 undergraduate subjects were divided into two groups: one given instructions to form images for the objects discussed in the text, the other given instructions to repeat each sentence five times. Half the passages consisted of…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Imagery