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Carpenter, Patricia A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service, National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Difficulty Level
Just, Marcel Adam; Carpenter, Patricia A. – 1975
This research concerns the distinction between processes in sentence comprehension and those in sentence memory. Comprehension was monitored by timing subjects while they decided whether a sentence is true or false. The memory process was tapped by examining subject's incidental memory for the sentences they previously verified. The verification…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Skills, Linguistic Competence
Carpenter, Patricia A.; Just, Marcel Adam – 1975
This research explored the fundamental processes involved in comprehending linguistic material: the duration of the process, the sequence of processes, and the sources of errors. One project examined the comprehension of affirmative and negative sentences that are read and verified with respect to a picture. A model developed to account for the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Skills, Language Tests