High-WMC readers show no seductive details effect, with seductive illustrations tending to yield the best performance¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3 · i3 large
Currency · newest study 2006 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i3 High-WMC readers performed significantly better than low-WMC readers in the seductive condition on the IVT (η2 = .57). → Sanchez 2006 q3 i? For high-WMC readers, seductive illustrations did not impair performance and tended to produce the best performance, though not statistically reliable. → Sanchez 2006 (2)

Evidence¶

Sanchez 2006¶

Sanchez, C. A., & Wiley, J. (2006). An examination of the seductive details effect in terms of working memory capacity. Memory & Cognition, 34(2), 344-355. https://link.springer.com/journal/13421

q3 · i3 · causal · r2

Experiment 1 IVT between-WMC-group comparison in the seductively illustrated condition: high-WMC readers significantly outperformed low-WMC readers (η2 = .57), while groups did not differ in the nonillustrated or conceptual conditions.

"high-WMC individuals per- formed significantly better in the seductive condition than did low-WMC individuals [F(1,22) /H11005 29.40, MSe /H11005 3.27, p /H11021 .01; η2 /H11005 .57], whereas there was no difference between WMC groups in either the nonillustrated or the conceptual condition"

Sanchez 2006 (2)¶

Sanchez, C. A., & Wiley, J. (2006). An examination of the seductive details effect in terms of working memory capacity. Memory & Cognition, 34(2), 344-355. https://link.springer.com/journal/13421

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Experiment 1, high-WMC group: planned comparisons showed no difference between nonillustrated and seductively illustrated conditions (F < 1); the advantage of seductive over conceptual illustrations was only marginal (p < .08), and the article reports this opposite effect was not statistically reliable.

"Thus, seductive illustrations did not negatively impact perfor- mance on the IVT and, in fact, tended to lead to the best performance of the three conditions."

Discussion¶

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