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Peer reviewedWaters, Harriet Salatas – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1983
Relations between rank of propositions in descriptive passages, importance ratings, and recall were evaluated in experiments using undergraduates to determine whether passage structure and importance ratings are necessarily related. Importance ratings varied with instructions, but subjects recalled superordinate propositions better than…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Prose
Download full textBoutwell, Richard C. – 1974
Three known methodological approaches were investigated as to their within-test correlative support in the measurement of a phenomena called imagery. Based on these methodologies, repeated dichotomization of subjects into high and low visualizers was significantly consistent. Moreover, self-reported ratings of imagery vividness of prose were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
