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Spiro, Rand J.; Tirre, William C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Discourse processing involves an interaction of text based processes and prior knowledge. It was shown that college students varied in their relative employment of knowledge-based processes, and that individuals tended to be more "text bound" when they were more "stimulus bound" according to an embedded figures test.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
Moes, Mary A.; And Others – 1984
A study investigated the relationship between text organization and children's reading comprehension of expository material. Upgraded and downgraded versions of both macrostructures and microstructures were combined to produce four texts on the topic of insect-eating plants. Forty-three seventh grade students were randomly assigned to one of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Language Processing