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Peer reviewedJohnson, Ronald E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
The patterning of recall of linguistic subunits was found to be strongly related to the semantic dimensions of abstractness-concreteness, specificity of denotation, comprehensibility, and interest. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBenton, Stephen L.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Seven experiments were performed to address three issues: prose decisions of different levels of difficulty, directed attention effect, and the effects of decisions on memorability of prose among relatively good and relatively poor readers. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Difficulty Level
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
