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PICTURES WORTH WORDS

What happens when we look at pictures, or at written words, or at pictures and words together? Is there a further effect when we hear words spoken along with visual or written material? We find evidence that visual material has strong influences on memory and learning, but its effectiveness for learning depends on the goal of the instruction as well as learning abilities and preferences.
Physical objects and events that can ordinarily be seen and actions that can be performed in the everyday world can be represented artistically, in drawings, sketches, caricatures and paintings, in still photography and in motion pictures, or in computer simulations. These illustrations are what are referred to as "pictures."

Contrasted to these real-life representations are illustrations that visually describe hierarchies, sequences of events, or relationships between concepts or statistics. They take forms such as graphs, diagrams, geometric models, line charts, bar charts, scatter plots, maps,...

Posted by: Helene Hannah

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