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Download full textMeyer, Bonnie J. F.; McConkie, George W. – 1972
In order to determine what aspects of information from prose are available for recall after one presentation of a passage and what aspects are learned with additional presentations, two passages were divided into idea units. These units were placed in a logical hierarchical structure for each passage, and scores were assigned to the idea units on…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, College Students, Conceptual Schemes
Schank, Roger C.; And Others – 1975
SAM (Script Applier Mechanism), a computer program designed to understand stories that rely heavily on scripts (typical sequences of events in particular contexts), is described in this report. Chapter one, which discusses SAM's background, shows how causal chaining was developed to connect events in stories, presents a typical script, and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Processes, Computer Programs, Conceptual Schemes
Peer reviewedBower, Gordon H.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
Seven experiments investigated adults' knowledge of routine activities (e.g., eating in a restaurant) and how that knowledge is organized and used to understand and remember narrative texts. "Script" denotes these action stereotypes; the role of script knowledge in text memory is discussed, as is the relation of scripts to schema memory.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGrabe, Mark D. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
Two experiments investigated the impact of a reader's perspective on prose learning: (1) subjects read stories from one of two directed perspectives or with no directed perspective; or (2) readers organized and familiarized themselves with a perspective before the perspective was applied to a story. Perspective influenced recall and organization.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Higher Education, Perspective Taking
Stein, Nancy L.; Glenn, Christine G. – 1975
This paper presents a schema developed to investigated story recall in elementary school children, and describes the results of a study which tested the schema with first and fifth graders. The story schema, a theoretical model which formally defines the types of strategies, operations, and structures inherent in the processor of story…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Educational Research
PDF pending restorationERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: the effects of preinstructional activities on the learning and retention of prose; the interaction of picture and print in reading instruction; the perception of structure in scrambled…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Cloze Procedure
