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Peer reviewedSpiro, Rand J.; Tirre, William C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Discourse processing involves an interaction of text based processes and prior knowledge. It was shown that college students varied in their relative employment of knowledge-based processes, and that individuals tended to be more "text bound" when they were more "stimulus bound" according to an embedded figures test.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
