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Michelle L. Rizzella; Edward J. O'Brien – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We examined the impact of prospective information on the processing of information occurring within the present timeline of narrative stories. Participants read target sentences that were consistent with events occurring within a protagonist's present timeline but inconsistent with events in the protagonist's future. When prospective information…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Processing, Sentences, Memory
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Keown, Kirsten; Gannon, Theresa A.; Ward, Tony – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2008
Child sexual offenders are hypothesized to hold offence-supportive beliefs that set them apart from others. The current study seeks support for this view via a cognitive-experimental approach. Child sexual offenders and offender controls were exposed to pictures of semi-clothed children (priming condition) or clothed, mature adults (control…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Information Processing, Criminals, Priming
Mynatt, Barbee T.; Smith, Kirk H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1977
This research was a further test of the theory of constructive processes proposed by Foos, Smith, Sabol, and Mynatt (1976) to account for differences among presentation orders in the construction of linear orders. This theory is composed of different series of mental operations that must be performed when an order relationship is integrated with…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Information Processing
Anderson, Richard C. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
During research reported here, the author held a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship. (VM)
Descriptors: Cues, Experiments, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Thios, Samuel J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Research based on part of a doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Virginia and supported by a National Science Foundation Research Grant to L. Starling Reid. Preliminary report of these data presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, N.Y., 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Experiments, Information Processing, Language Research
Beatty, Jackson; Borree, Jeanine – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Descriptors: Experiments, Form Classes (Languages), Information Processing, Language Research
Park, Denise Cortis; Whitten, William B., LLL – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1977
This research examines how pictures differ from sentences on important memory dimensions, with specific reference to Bransford and Franks (1971). (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Codification, Experimental Psychology, Flow Charts, Illustrations
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Sturges, Persis T.; Frase, Lawrence T. – 1972
The present study explored the effects of complex relational sentences upon the acquisition and recall of surrounding material in immediate and long-term memory. The study also investigated the effects of an immediate prompted recall test upon long-term retention, and the recallability of different types of content. Reading time (subject-paced; 16…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Factor Analysis, Information Processing, Language Acquisition
McCauley, Charley – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
In the present study, an attempt was made to determine whether temporal patterning and speach processes comparable to those obtained with categorized materials are involved in the recall of higher order units formed intraexperimentally. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Diagrams, Experimental Psychology
James, Carlton T.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (VM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Information Processing, Information Storage
Stanners, Robert F.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Information Processing, Language Research