Picture mediation in abstract-concrete paired associates.
The present study investigated the hypothesis that pictures of abstract-concrete paired associates would serve to make the abstract stimulus member more concrete thereby enhancing the learning process. 60 subjects were equally divided into 6 groups, varying conditions of concreteness and abstractness of the stimulus items and pictures or no picture. The results supported the basic proposition that the picture mediation presented during the learning-testing condition facilitated the learning of the abstract paired associates.
D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception