Abstract
Abstract Skaalvik, Einar M. 1977. Pictures and Words as Stimuli in Paired Associate Learning. Scand. J. educ. Res. 26, pp. 1‐15. This paper focuses on the effect of verbal and pictorial stimuli on paired associate learning. The discussion centres on the traditional finding that learning is easier with pictures than with words as stimuli. It is hypothesized that this effect is caused by differential coding and storing strategies for words and pictures. A model is developed for these coding and storing strategies, and two main hypotheses are stated. The first of these states that the difference in performance when learning lists with conceptually similar and conceptually dissimilar stimuli will be greater in lists where the stimuli are verbal, rather than pictorial. The second states both that after learning lists with pictorial stimuli the performance will be better when pictorial stimuli rather than verbal stimuli are presented during the recall phase, and also that a significant interaction will be obtained between stimulus modality during the study phase and the recall phase. These hypotheses are confirmed experimentally.
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