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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
Download full textCrothers, 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
