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Akiyama, M. Michael; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two experiments investigated the relationship of verification to the answering of yes-no questions. Subjects verified simple statements or answered simple questions. Various proposals concerning the relative difficulty of answering questions and verifying statements were considered, and a model was proposed. (SW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Learning Processes
Cirilo, Randolph K.; Foss, Donald J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Explores two approaches to discourse structure and comprehension. Illustrates that prior knowledge is ued in conjunction with cues to construct the macrostructure of the story. Provides evidence that text comprehension is based on the presentation of the propositions of the story. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Connected Discourse, Cues, Decoding (Reading)
Graesser, Arthur, C.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Describes a question-answering procedure for probing the reader's internal representation of prose. Examines two dimensions of a reader's conceptual organization of plot: hierarchical level and relational density of propositions. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Connected Discourse
Graesser, Arthur C.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
A schema-based framework for representing knowledge and prose organization was studied. Testing of a script pointer and tag hypothesis confirmed that memory discrimination is better for atypical actions in a passage than for typical script actions and that there is no memory discrimination for very typical actions. (SW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Learning Theories