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Zaromb, Franklin M.; Karpicke, Jeffrey D.; Roediger, Henry L., III – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
We examined free recall and metacognitive judgments of ambiguous sentences studied with and without clues to facilitate their comprehension. Sentences were either studied without clues, with clues meaningfully embedded, or with clues following a 10-s interval delay. After presentation, subjects made judgments of comprehension (JCOMPs) or judgments…
Descriptors: Sentences, Metacognition, Recall (Psychology), Decision Making
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McNamara, Danielle S.; McDaniel, Mark A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
In 3 experiments, the authors examined the role of knowledge activation in the suppression of contextually irrelevant meanings for ambiguous homographs. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants with greater baseball knowledge, regardless of reading skill, more quickly suppressed the irrelevant meaning of ambiguous words in baseball-related, but not…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentences, Inhibition, Reading Skills