Concrete vs abstract words – what do you recall better? A study on dual coding theory
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HELP College of Arts and Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Psychiatry and Psychology, Statistics
- Keywords
- Dual Coding Theory, Abstract words, Concrete words, Asian Participants
- Copyright
- © 2017 Yui et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Concrete vs abstract words – what do you recall better? A study on dual coding theory. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2719v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2719v1
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the theory of dual coding on remembering words, by testing whether concrete words are better recalled than abstract words. A total of 298 (from Asian ethnicity) participants took part in this study. The participants were divided into two groups, where each group was given a list of abstract or concrete words. Then, they were asked to write down as many words as they recall within two minute. The results demonstrated that the participants recalled concrete words better than the abstract words, supporting previous studies.
Author Comment
This paper was presented as a part of a Psychology colloquium. This is a preprint submitted to PeerJ.