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How Do Adolescents Process Advertisements? The Influence of Ad Characteristics, Processing Objective, and Gender.

Edens1, McCormick

  • 1Department of Educational Psychology, University of South Carolina

Contemporary Educational Psychology
|September 26, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Visual print ads boost adolescent memory, emotion, and inference more than verbal ads. Females showed stronger responses than males, with high elaboration enhancing detail recall.

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Area of Science:

  • Advertising research
  • Adolescent psychology
  • Media effects

Background:

  • Adolescents are a key demographic for advertisers.
  • Understanding how different ad formats influence young minds is crucial for media literacy.
  • Previous research has explored cognitive and affective responses to advertising, but less is known about the differential impact of visual versus verbal print ads on adolescents.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of print advertisement format (visual vs. verbal) on adolescent cognitive and affective responses.
  • To examine gender differences in responses to print advertisements.
  • To determine the effect of elaboration level on memory and inference.

Main Methods:

  • A sample of junior and senior high school students (111 males, 84 females) was recruited.

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  • Participants were randomly assigned to process either primarily visual or primarily verbal print advertisements under low- or high-elaboration conditions.
  • Dependent variables included memory of specific facts, inference, and emotional response, measured via questionnaires.

    • Main Results:

    • Predominantly visual advertisements led to better memory of facts, increased inferencing, and more intense emotional responses compared to predominantly verbal ads.
    • Females recalled more facts, made more inferences, reported stronger emotional responses, and identified ad claims more accurately than males.
    • Adolescents in the high-elaboration condition remembered more details than those in the low-elaboration condition.

    Conclusions:

    • Visual print advertisements are more effective than verbal ones in engaging adolescents cognitively and affectively.
    • Gender plays a significant role in how adolescents process and respond to advertising content.
    • Higher levels of cognitive elaboration enhance memory for advertising details, underscoring the importance of media literacy education.