| Abstract: | Gave study instructions to 383 college students to investigate several learning strategies. All learners except those in the read-twice control were told to study a science chapter by either writing paraphrases or drawing pictures of the material. Additionally, some learners were told to be either analytic, by focusing on details, or holistic, by relating specifics to more inclusive concepts. Individual differences were assessed in verbal ability, pictorial ability, and preference for pictorial or verbal thinking. The study instructions successfully manipulated pictorial–verbal strategies but not analytic–holistic strategies, according to self-reports and judges' ratings. Results reveal weak effects favoring the drawing strategy for males and females and the holistic strategy for females only, but there were no significant interaction effects. (42 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
