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Peer reviewedWaters, Harriet Salatas – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1983
Relations between rank of propositions in descriptive passages, importance ratings, and recall were evaluated in experiments using undergraduates to determine whether passage structure and importance ratings are necessarily related. Importance ratings varied with instructions, but subjects recalled superordinate propositions better than…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Prose
