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Peer reviewedLieberman, Lewis R.; Altschul, Steven – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Imagination
Carey, James Otto – 1976
The purpose of this study was threefold: to determine whether adding a mnemonic to systematically designed instruction would improve verbal retention, to establish whether retention is better for concrete or abstract information, and to determine whether mental imagery or verbal elaboration is more effective for learning concrete or abstract…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
