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What is Recalled after Hearing a Passage?

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Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; McConkie, George W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973

This study has demonstrated the feasibility of extracting from passages of expository text a structure that reveals an important aspect of the logical interrelations among the ideas expressed in the passage. (Author)

Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Association (Psychology), College Students, Concept Formation

A Series of Experiments Concerning the Relationship between Learning and the Structural Importance of Linguistic Subunits. Final Report.

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Johnson, Ronald E. – 1970

A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Experiments, Fiction