Is "Working Memory Capacity" Just Another Name for Word Knowledge?.

Engle, Randall W.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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Is "Working Memory Capacity" Just Another Name for Word Knowledge?

Engle, Randall W.; And Others

Journal of Educational Psychology, v82 n4 p799-804 Dec 1990

An experiment in which 90 undergraduate students were tested on simple and complex versions of a word-span task with high and low frequency words suggests that both word knowledge and a content-free working memory play causal roles in the relationship between word span and higher level cognitive tasks. (SLD)

Descriptors: Causal Models, Correlation, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Knowledge Level, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Thinking Skills, Undergraduate Students, Verbal Tests, Vocabulary Skills, Word Frequency, Word Recognition

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