... pairs. However, bizarreness did not affect the results of recall. Besides being used for recollection, the use of imagery for teaching languages is significantly effective, as shown by Atkinson & Raugh (1975). The technique used is the key-word method where an image is used to help recall another word. When teaching the foreign language to the participants in the experiment, the participants were told to find a part of the foreign word which sounds like an English word. For example: in Spanish, the word lagartija means lizard. In English, the word would be broken down and read as "log-ar -tee-ja". The high imagery word would be 'log' and so it would be used as the key to recall the definition. Participants of this experiment would then have been told to imagine a lizard lying on top of a log. Like this, the stored image would help retrieve the actual meaning ...

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