The purpose of this study was to investigate what a group of older adults remembered after viewing a television program. The study sought to discover how much was learned, what proportions were main and subordinate ideas, what ideas were inferred by the viewer, and what change in recall occurred after a period of two days. / Fifty-nine older adults from an association of retired persons participated in the study. They were randomly divided into two groups, the immediate recall group and the delayed recall group. / The narration of a NOVA television program, shortened to be 30 minutes long, was subjected to a text analysis procedure to identify main ideas and subordinate ideas. A total of 1,317 ideas were presented, 315 main ideas, and 1,002 subordinate ideas. A recall test was developed and contained 14 items measuring main ideas, and 14 items measuring subordinate ideas. Eight items were written to measure inference. / Both groups viewed the television program. The immediate recall group took the test immediately afterwards, the delayed recall group took the test two days latter. / Results indicate that both groups recalled approximately 54% of the main ideas immediately after viewing the program and 53% after two days. There was no significant difference in recall of the main ideas. However, 54% of the subordinate ideas were recalled by the immediate group and 48% by the delayed group. The difference between immediate and delayed recall of subordinate ideas is statistically significant. The subjects had a high overall level of education and both groups answered correctly about 5 of the 8 inference questions. / A three way analysis of the variance indicated that mean performance scores on all recall tasks were significantly higher with education levels above high school. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-12, Section: A, page: 3665. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75248 |
| Contributors | HEWLETT, BRENT ANDERSON., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 166 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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