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Peer reviewedSpiro, Rand J.; Tirre, William C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Discourse processing involves an interaction of text based processes and prior knowledge. It was shown that college students varied in their relative employment of knowledge-based processes, and that individuals tended to be more "text bound" when they were more "stimulus bound" according to an embedded figures test.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
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Considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to theories of text comprehension and recall that stress the importance of preexisting knowledge structures or schemata. While the valuable contribution such research has made to the understanding of the reading process and the various disabilities that often attend its acquisition must be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Knowledge Level, Language Processing, Prior Learning
