Redundancy Principle

Redundancy Principle

by Erin Tanaka | EDUC 579: Media Selection & Evaluation

Poll

Prediction Poll: According to the Redundancy Principle, people learn better from:

Multiple Choice

Which "Take" demonstrates minimizing the Redundancy Effect?

• Take 1: Graphics, Narration and On-screen Text

• Take 2: Graphics and Narration Only

Multiple Choice

Redundancy creates extraneous processing because the visual channel can become overloaded.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A case in favor of on-screen text is based on the Capacity Limitation Hypothesis

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Negative effects of redundancy may be reduced when:

• Captions are shortened and placed next to the graphic described

• Words are unfamiliar or in a second language

• There are no graphics and the verbal sections are short

• All of the above