When I studied the various reason most authors describe the contiguity principle, it made me seriously consider what and how many visuals should be on my Mobile App screens. How they described the mental reasons as to why the contiguity principles affect learning. One proposal was that separating pictures from words is not built on an accurate understanding of the how people learn. Moreover, another psychological reason for the contiguity principle is that people need to make sense of what they see. If words, pictures, are placed separately then the learners will not create any meaningful relationship between the words and the pictures. Additionally, if they need to match up words and pictures with visual and auditory conduits to the brain. These “information channels” will become overloaded. These scarce and limited conduits are the other reason the contiguity principle affects learning. We need to understand that learners should not be using their limited cognitive capability for unnecessary processing. If words and pictures are put together, they provide the learners with paths to create important connections between the two aspects of learning. The learners need to concentrate on both aspects of learning “words and pictures” and not split their attention between the two simultaneously.

In the  https://youtu.be/aHqHkpEULFc?t=75 Montes video gives us a case of online material where the pictures and words have been used appropriately to give meaning to the content. The parts of the pictures in the material are labeled accordingly and descriptions for the labeled parts provided. In my research the description of the contiguity principle was that, words and pictures should not be separated and presented in different pages because the learners will most likely not make sense of what they see. I Must consider this when creating my Mobile App screens.

In this video segment https://youtu.be/aHqHkpEULFc?t=175 Montes reveals a situation where the video violates the principle. The contiguity principle states that spoken words are supposed to be aligned with the corresponding graphics. The graphics shown by the author, in this case, are meant to explain the events of a cardiac circle, but the spoken words do not correspond with graphics, and this violates the contiguity principle. If the author had matched the spoken words with the corresponding text, then it would have been easier for the reader to comprehend the message the author is trying to communicate.

Montes, B. (2012). Contiguity Principle for E-Learning. YouTube. Retrieved November 17, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHqHkpEULFc