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Lynch, Mervin D.; And Others – 1970
The building block theory of language structure, an information processing approach, is applied to the development of a model of the reading process. Specifically, the model is concerned with the amount of time an individual will spend reading and the amount of content he will decode which is determined by a series of cognitive processes involving…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
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Webb, Roger A.; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Developmental Psychology
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Farnham-Diggory, S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Presents a reply to and an analysis of a study which examined the use of logograph research to determine children's cognitive integration ability. The study in question had been based on the present author's previous research. (BD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development
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Manzo, Anthony V. – Reading Improvement, 1970
Descriptors: Comprehension, Directed Reading Activity, Intellectual Development, Models
Stein, Nancy L.; Glenn, Christine G. – 1975
This study investigated the development of story recall in elementary school children through development of a model of story comprehension which specified both the rules for informational transformations and elaborations and the nature of the organizational structure of stories. Using Rumelhart's (1974) schema for analyzing stories in terms of a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1
Jones, Jack B. – 1978
Many writers have suggested that comprehension occurs at several levels (e.g., literal, inference, and conclusion). However, many teachers spend as much as two-thirds of their time on lower-level skills such as phonics and literal-level comprehension skills. Some authors have suggested ways of assisting readers in achieving comprehension at more…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Charts, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Tiedeman, David V.; Miller-Tiedeman, Anna – 1975
The state of the art review depicts comprehension of choice and decision making as knowable and demonstrates that something is already known about both processes and how to facilitate their comprehension. The assumption is made that deciding to choose, choosing to decide, deciding in order to choose, and choosing in order to decide must be…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Choice, Comprehension, Decision Making
Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1978
Recent studies on schema theory and other concepts related to reading comprehension are discussed in this paper. Noting that the psycholinguistic model of reading views reading as a process of predicting meaning based on the reader's prior knowledge of language, the paper describes recent research that has led to a definition of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Herber, Harold L., Ed.; Sanders, Peter L., Ed. – 1969
The two-fold role of the content area secondary school teacher in teaching content and in teaching learning process is investigated. A research model, called the Structured Overview, showing the relationships among basic elements of the study of the secondary school curriculum is presented, and assumptions clarifying the perspective of the nature…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Content Area Reading
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Simonton, Dean Keith – Psychological Review, 1985
Four models are developed to provide a conceptual basis for a curvilinear relation between intelligence and an individual's influence over group members. The models deal with influence and percentile placement in intelligence, comprehension by potential followers, vulnerability to rival intellects, and correlation between mean group IQ and the…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Creativity