Hayes, D.A., & Henk, W.A. (1986). Understanding and remembering complex prose augmented by analogic and pictorial illustration. Journal of Reading Behavior, 18(1), 63-78.

Hayes, D.; Henk, W.

1986

Hayes, D.A., & Henk, W.A. (1986). Understanding and remembering complex prose augmented by analogic and pictorial illustration. Journal of Reading Behavior, 18(1), 63-78.

An experiment compared readers' use of analogic & pictorial illustrations for understanding & remembering complex instructional text. High school students (N = 102) read procedural texts under six analogic & pictorial illustration conditions & attempted to apply the texts' content in an applied performance task. Two weeks later Ss were evaluated on their attempts to perform the same task from memory. Pictures proved helpful for both immediate performance & delayed performace. Analogy was helpful for delayed performance but only slightly more helpful on immediate performance. Results are discussed in terms of apparent functions of analogies & pictures.

In general the findings support the prediction taht pictures would improve more helpful for initial understanding and analogies would be more useful for remembering the content.

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