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Download full textMachiels-Bongaerts, Maureen; Schmidt, Henk G. – 1995
Effects of mobilizing prior knowledge on information processing were studied with 3 groups of 12 adult subjects each. The assumption that activating different kinds of prior knowledge would induce different information processing activities during subsequent text processing (inferencing or elaborating) was tested using passages about fishing…
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Machiels-Bongaerts, Maureen; And Others – 1992
The effects of mobilizing prior knowledge on information processing were studied. Two hypotheses, the cognitive set-point hypothesis and the selective attention hypothesis, try to account for the facilitation effects of prior knowledge activation. These hypotheses predict different recall patterns as a result of mobilizing prior knowledge. In…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Machiels-Bongaerts, Maureen; And Others – 1990
Two hypotheses, the cognitive capacity hypothesis and the selective attention hypothesis, try to account for the facilitation effects of prior knowledge activation. They appear to be mutually exclusive since they predict different recall patterns as a result of prior knowledge activation. This study was designed to determine whether the two…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
