The present experiment attempted to determine if the directed use of imagery in sentences was necessary for the high recall level of Ss in a study by Briggs, Hawkins, & Crovitz (1970). Three groups of 20 Ss each were used: I (same as Crovitz's group), S (heard the same sentences without reference to using pictures/images), and R (heard the critical word twice). No significant advantage accrued to the I condition in recall relative to S. Moreover, S was more like R than I both in terrns of the reported usage of imagery and the number of words recalled correctly for which an Image was reported. These similarities and differences suggest that the extent to which land S use the same coding process, e.g., visual imagery, does differ.
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