Zusammenfassung
The present study integrates cognitive and affective aspects of media processing in order to make an
argument for reexamining the current cold cognition perspective in multimedia research in favor of a
more integrative perspective. The Cognitive-Affective-Theory-of-Learning-with-Media (CATLM) assumes
that students need to become motivated to make full use of their cognitive resources. Therefore, and even
though seductive details (sds) are additional interesting but unnecessary pieces of information that do
not conform with the coherence principle, their possible motivational role should not be dismissed. Using
a 2 3-experimental design, participants (N = 123) were asked to learn about biology with multimedia
instruction that manipulated modality (text vs. narration) and presence of seductive details (no-sds vs.
textual-sds vs. narrated-sds). Results of variance analyses show a modality effect. In addition, moderated
mediation analyses with the moderator modality and mediator situational interest confirm the affective
mediation assumption with the following two conditional effects. A direct detrimental effect of seductive
details on learning performance under the text-condition and an indirect compensatory effect under the
narration-condition were shown.
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