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Peer reviewedLevin, Joel R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Experiments showed that in verbal discrimination learning imaging the referent of the correct item was more facilitative than vocalizing the correct item, as long as the imagery structure was executed in the company of relevant motor activity. No difference between the two strategies was found in pictorial discrimination learning. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Imagery
Peer reviewedLieberman, Lewis R.; Altschul, Steven – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Imagination
Peer reviewedSoundy, Cathleen S.; Genisio, Margaret Humadi – Childhood Education, 1994
Describes an instructional approach that encourages teachers to guide children in narrating stories based on actual or imagined experiences, particularly those that transpire in the classroom. Discusses ways of incorporating events from dramatic play and everyday occurrences into storytelling activities and offers a story sampler that exemplifies…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Emergent Literacy, Imagination, Language Acquisition
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
McLendon, Gloria H. – 1982
Current writings on the functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain are examined, focusing upon possible implications for improving present educational techniques. It has been generally accepted by researchers that the organizational and verbalizing processes are functions of the left cerebral hemisphere, while creative and intuitive…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking, Creative Dramatics
Download full textSchuster, Don, Ed. – Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1983
The spring-summer and fall-winter 1983 numbers of the journal include these articles: "Body-Mind Integration Through Yoga" (Marie Paulyn); "The Effectiveness of Three Classroom Teaching Methods: Programmed Instruction, Simulation, and Guided Fantasy" (Elizabeth B. Groff, Gary F. Render); "Teaching Relaxation in School: A…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Classification, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
Honig, Alice Sterling; Brophy, Holly Elisabeth – 1996
Noting that children s first words are exciting for parents to hear, this book describes how babies can "talk" before they learn to say actual words and shows ways parents can help babies learn language. The book addresses a neglected area in child development--how to help low literacy parents and parents for whom English is a Second…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Rearing
