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Peer reviewedLaporte, Ronald E.; Voss, James F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Memory, Performance, Prose
Baggett, Patricia – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
A technique was devised for constructing a text story which subjects agreed matched the dialogueless movie "The Red Balloon" in episodic structure. It relies partly on subjects judging where episodes and their components were located in the stories. Differences in content in movie and text recall are discussed. (SW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Films, Language Research
Peer reviewedTaub, Harvey A.; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1982
Evaluated effects of perceived choice upon comprehension and memory of prose reading passages. Compared choice and no choice conditions with young and elderly adults and only elderly groups. Results indicated both age- and vocabulary-related deficits. However, perceived choice conditions did not produce any consistent improvement in performance.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Memory
