| Abstract: | Determined whether the relative difficulty of the words being read influences the extent to which good, normal, and poor readers' decoding is susceptible to influence by adjunct pictures. 48 3rd graders were required to read easy, moderate, and difficult 1-syllable nouns under each of 3 conditions: a control condition with no pictures, an identifying-picture condition, and an unrelated-picture condition. The reading performance of poor readers as a group was influenced by pictures under all conditions, while that of normal and good readers was much less affected by them. There were, however, marked individual differences among the poor readers in the degree of their susceptibility to distraction. (10 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
