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Anderson, Richard C.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Three experiments investigated the hypothesis that, when interpreted in context, general terms are typically encoded on the basis of an instantiation. Results indicated that a particular term naming the expected instantiation of a general term was a better cue for recall of a sentence than the general term itself. (CHK)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cues, Decoding (Reading), Memory
Schallert, Diane Lemonnier – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Two aspects of memory for prose were investigated. The amount of information remembered and the semantic interpretation assigned to ambiguous paragraphs. Task instructions and exposure duration of passages were varied. Recall and recognition measures indicated students remembered more with instructions requiring processing at a semantic level.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Memory, Prose
Underwood, Geoffrey – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Listeners shadowed lists of words or parts of sentences, and shadowing latencies were recorded. The effect of attended context was interpreted as a result of strategical manipulation of response bias (a resource-limited process), whereas unattended context may be effective through spreading excitation in semantic memory (a data-limited process).…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Reading Processes, Reading Research
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Daves, Walter F. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attitudes, Context Clues, Cultural Influences
Fischler, Ira; Bloom, Paul A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of sentence contexts on word recognition and reading. The questions of whether context is predominantly facilitating or inhibiting and how automatic the influence of contexts is on word retrieval were investigated. (SW)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Language Processing, Language Research
Brown, Alan S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
The effects of semantic (S), orthographic (O), and unrelated (U) verbal stimuli on word retrieval were examined. S stimuli inhibited locating items within categories, whereas U stimuli inhibited locating the appropriate category. The discrepancy between the present outcome and the previous finding of S prime retrieval facilitation is discussed.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Higher Education, Learning Problems, Memory
Boettcher, Judith A. – 1978
When two adults read eleven paragraphs, assigned a meaning to the target word in each paragrah, and answered questions about their strategies for dealing with the difficult/unknown words, they exhibited four strategies, outside of actual definition, that skilled readers use to deal with such words. The most often used strategy is paragraph…
Descriptors: Adults, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Postsecondary Education