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Thorndyke, Perry W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
This study examined how people use inferences to aid comprehension of connected discourse. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Learning Processes
Keenan, Janice M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Recognition memory for statements made during a luncheon discussion group was tested in an incidental learning paradigm after thirty hours. Statements high in interactional content yielded excellent memory for surface form and meaning; statements low in interactional content showed no memory for surface form and less memory for content. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Memory
Spiro, Rand J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Reports an experiment which supports the predictions of the accommodative-reconstruction hypothesis that recall is not based on retrieval of stored traces of interpreted experience. It involves accommodating details of what is to be remembered to what is known at the time of recall. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Language Processing, Learning Processes, Memory
Black, John B.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Reports on research on point of view and its effect on reading processes. (AM)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Literary Perspective, Memory, Psychological Studies
