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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
Morris, C. Donald; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
Paragraph recall was easier if prior information, presented as elaborations of the paragraph sentences, was precise, rather than irrelevant or imprecise. Precise information also permitted quick and efficient elaboration of new information. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Higher Education, Information Utilization, Knowledge Level
Brooks, Larry W.; Dansereau, Donald F. – 1981
Previous research conducted from a schema theory perspective has neglected those instances where the reader is confronted with unfamiliar text. This issue is addressed, and initial results on training students to acquire and use form schema in processing relatively unfamiliar descriptive prose are presented. Thirty-two college students were…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Knowledge Level
Dansereau, Donald F. – 1982
Two experiments were conducted to assess the effects of knowledge schema training and text organization on the comprehension and recall of scientific prose. The first experiment tested whether or not knowledge schema training improves processing and recall of a passage on plate tectonics (32 college subjects served as subjects). The second…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Science, College Students, Comprehension