The Power of Fiction: Reading Stories in Abnormal Psychology
We compared the instructional efficacy of a narrative text (i.e., a story) and an expository text (i.e., a textbook excerpt). Students enrolled in Abnormal Psychology classes read about the disorder, dissociative fugue from a story, a textbook, or both. The story contained literary elements that inc...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Georgia Southern University
2011-01-01
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Series: | International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol5/iss1/16 |