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Direct linkCook, Anne E.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Previous text comprehension studies using the contradiction paradigm primarily tested assumptions of the activation mechanism involved in reading. However, the nature of the contradiction in such studies relied on validation of information in readers' general world knowledge. We directly tested this validation process by varying the strength of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Validity, Reliability, Undergraduate Students
