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Peer reviewedThorndyke, Perry W. – Cognitive Psychology, 1977
Two experiments study the effects of structure and content variables on memory and comprehension of prose passages. The first experiment tests the effects of systematically varying the amount of structure present in to-be-learned passages. The second experiment assesses the independent contributions of structure and content variables in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Discourse Analysis, Memory
