Accession Number:
ADA300093
Title:
The Effect of Qualitative Explanations and Pictures on Learning, Retention, and
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Sep 91-Oct 93,
Corporate Author:
NAVY PERSONNEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1995-10-01
Pagination or Media Count:
31.0
Abstract:
Two experiments investigated the effects of qualitative explanations and pictures on learning, retention, and transfer of a procedural assembly task. Results showed 1 functional explanations are more effective than structural explanations in learning and remembering a procedural task, however, their effects are diminished when learning subsequent similar tasks, 2 providing pictures facilitates learning but does not help performance once the task has been learned to criterion, and 3 previous experience in a task domain results in positive transfer to new tasks in the same domain.
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Subject Categories:
- Psychology
- Personnel Management and Labor Relations