The Effect of Qualitative Explanations and Pictures on Learning, Retention, and

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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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA300093

Entities

People

  • Betty V. Whitehill
  • John A. Ellis

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Human Resources
  • Instructional Materials
  • Instructions
  • Learning
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Naval Training
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Trainees
  • Training
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Structural Dynamics.