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Are participants more likely to recall a list of words, when words are accompanied by pictures?
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Emily Bridges Are participants more likely to recall a list of words, when words are accompanied by pictures? Abstract: The aim of my experiment was to discover whether words accompanied by an image is a better technique of remembering words than those without images. The experimental hypothesis was that there would be significantly more words recalled from a list of words accompanied by pictures than from the same list of words unaccompanied by pictures. An independent measures design was used to gain picture and non-picture scores from two sets of participants. A total of 32 participants were used from college using a casual sample. The results were in the form of scores and were analysed using the Mann Whitney U test, and were found to be significant at the 0.05 level of significance for a one tailed test. It was therefore concluded that the use of imagery, when remembering words is a more...
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