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Miyake, Naomi; Norman, Donald A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
The notion that a prerequisite for asking questions about new topic matter is some appropriate level of knowledge was tested. Learners with two levels of background knowledge using learning material with two levels of difficulty were studied. (SW)
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