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Download full textSpiro, Rand J. – 1975
A reconstructive approach to memory for connected discourse is contrasted with orientations that emphasize passive reproduction. Conditions under which reconstructive errors in recall should occur are specified. Most conventional experiments do not satisfy the conditions. In an experiment involving 360 college students, subjects were induced not…
Descriptors: College Students, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Learning Processes
Kennedy, Alan – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Methods used in the present study confirm that rejection latencies are a reliable index of certain strategies adopted in processing prose. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Data Analysis, Memory
Anderson, Dennis L.; Byers, Joe L. – 1971
Retroactive interference (RI) in prose learning was investigated in an experiment where passages were constructed on the basis of a predetermined logical structure. This structure made it possible to operationally define similarity and assess the effects of RI for inferential information as well as that stated directly in the original passage.…
Descriptors: College Students, Connected Discourse, Educational Research, Learning
Peer reviewedMarschark, Marc; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1993
Adolescents with deafness or partial hearing were assessed on memory for relational and distinctive information when text structure and material concreteness were manipulated. Deaf and hard-of-hearing readers were less likely than hearing readers to integrate text information across idea units, although they may retain as much information from…
Descriptors: Coherence, Connected Discourse, Deafness, Difficulty Level
Anderson, Richard C.; And Others – 1977
Subjects read narratives about a meal at a fine restaurant or a trip to a supermarket. The same 18 items of food, attributed to the same characters, were mentioned in the same order in the two stories. As predicted from current formulations of schema theory, foods from categories determined to be part of most people's restaurant schemata were…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Connected Discourse
Peer reviewedTaylor, Barbara M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1980
Investigates the relationship of reading ability and age to children's recall of expository text after reading and analyzes children's sensitivity to text structure. (MKM)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Zimmer, John W. – 1978
In an analysis of a processing activities model of memory applied to connected discourse, 206 college students assigned to eight conditions in two studies evidenced significantly greater recall when provided with semantic level tasks than either surface feature analysis or reading control (intentional and incidental) conditions. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Connected Discourse, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Crothers, Edward J. – 1971
This report presents a summary of the research designed to develop a psycholinguistics of comprehension and memory for meaningful written prose paragraphs. The approach departs from most previous ones by seeking to formulate an explicit theory, instead of relying on informal qualitative judgments as to paragraph structure, the scoring of data, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Connected Discourse, Deep Structure
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: children's development of syntactic aspects of reading comprehension, the relative contributions of the individual and the text in the comprehension and retention…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Connected Discourse
