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Peer reviewedFrederiksen, Carl H. – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
An experimental context designed to directly affect discourse processing by inducing subjects to generate inferences involving text content was compared to a context in which subjects simply listened to and recalled the content of a text. Context did effect the amount of inferred and overgeneralized semantic information in subjects' text recalls.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Higher Education, Information Processing
