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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
Download full textBrooks, Larry W.; Dansereau, Donald F. – 1981
Previous research conducted from a schema theory perspective has neglected those instances where the reader is confronted with unfamiliar text. This issue is addressed, and initial results on training students to acquire and use form schema in processing relatively unfamiliar descriptive prose are presented. Thirty-two college students were…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Knowledge Level
