It's not easy being green: student recall of plant and animal images
It's not easy being green: student recall of plant and animal images
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DOI：
10.1080/00219266.2008.9656123
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发表时间：
2008-06-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Olzak, Lynn A.
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作者：
Schussler, Elisabeth E.;Olzak, Lynn A.
人们对研究植物的兴趣不如对研究动物的兴趣，这是有据可查的。我们测试了大学生是否会选择性地回忆起更多的动物图像比植物图像，即使同样命名的植物和动物图像呈现相同的时间长度。动物和植物图像进行了预先测试，并选择了14个动物植物对，根据学生的能力，平等的名称的图像。这些图像被随机呈现给两组大学生：目前正在上心理学课的学生和目前正在上植物学课的学生。在一个分散注意力的任务后，学生回忆每个图像的记录。实验结果表明，动物形象被试的回忆率显著高于植物形象。参加植物学课程对这些结果没有明显的影响。然而，性别效应被确定为回忆植物与动物的图像一般（女性回忆更多的植物比男性）和四个特定的植物图像（康乃馨，玫瑰，雏菊，金星捕蝇器）。在生物学教学中，教师应该提出相同数量的植物和动物的例子，并使用最难忘的植物图像可能试图抵消学生对动物的选择性注意。
It is well documented that people are less interested in studying plants than animals. We tested whether university students would selectively recall more animal images than plant images even when equally-nameable plant and animal images were presented for equal lengths of time. Animal and plant images were pre-tested and 14 animal-plant pairs were selected, based on student ability to equally name the images. These images were randomly presented to two groups of university students: those currently enrolled in a psychology class and those currently enrolled in a botany class. Student recall of each image was recorded after a distracting task. The results confirmed that the animal images were recalled significantly more than the plant images. There was no apparent effect of attending a botany class on these results. However, gender effects were identified for recall of plant versus animal images in general (women recalled more plants than men) and for four specific plant images (carnation, rose, daisy, and venus fly trap). When teaching biology, teachers should present equal numbers of plant and animal examples and use the most memorable plant images possible to attempt to offset student selective attention to animals.