Cognitive Structures in Comprehension and Memory of Narrative Discourse.

Thorndyke, Perry W.

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Publication Date: 1977

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Cognitive Structures in Comprehension and Memory of Narrative Discourse

Thorndyke, Perry W.

Cognitive Psychology, 9, 1, 77-110, Jan 77

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 comprehension and learning prose. (RC)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Discourse Analysis, Memory, Models, Prose, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology), Structural Analysis, Transformational Generative Grammar

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