Visual superiority effect in televised prevention of victimization programs for preschool children.
Preschool children have been reported to remember more visual than auditory content from television programs. 80 preschool children were randomly assigned to conditions where visual or auditory components of a televised program on personal safety were manipulated. Visually modeled actions were slightly more salient for preschool-age children than actions represented auditorily. The combination of visual and auditory input provided the superior educational method.
Department of Psychology, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos 78666-4616.
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D001288:Attention; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D013067:Speech Perception; D013690:Television; D014796:Visual Perception