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Peer reviewedBower, Gordon H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Inhibition, Learning, Memory
Black, John B.; Bower, Gordon H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Memory representations of statements from a story were predicted to cluster into separate episode chunks in memory. It was shown that the recall of episode depends on the length of that episode, but not on the lengths of other episodes. The chunking idea was confirmed. (SW)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Memory, Prose
Peer reviewedBower, Gordon H.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
Seven experiments investigated adults' knowledge of routine activities (e.g., eating in a restaurant) and how that knowledge is organized and used to understand and remember narrative texts. "Script" denotes these action stereotypes; the role of script knowledge in text memory is discussed, as is the relation of scripts to schema memory.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Higher Education
