The Effects of Physical Structure and Semantic Organization on the Recall of Prose.

Fuqua, Robert W.; Phye, Gary D.

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The Effects of Physical Structure and Semantic Organization on the Recall of Prose

Fuqua, Robert W.; Phye, Gary D.

Contemporary Educational Psychology, 3, 2, 105-7, Apr 78

The effects of a prose passage's physical structure and semantic organization upon free recall performance was investigated. Passages, describing characteristics of fictitious countries, contained either five or nine paragraphs of varying lengths. Differences in the distribution of materials interacted with type of semantic organization to produce differences in recall. (Author/BW)

Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Organization, Paragraphs, Prose, Recall (Psychology), Semantics

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