Effect of Text Coherence and Elaboration on Recall of Sentences within Paragraphs.

Miller, Raymond B.; McCown, Rick R.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Effect of Text Coherence and Elaboration on Recall of Sentences within Paragraphs.

Miller, Raymond B.; McCown, Rick R.

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v11 n2 p127-38 Apr 1986

Two experiments were conducted to test competing explanations of the levels effect in memory for text. In both experiments subjects (college students) read paragraphs in which the height of target propositions was held constant while the amount of target elaboration differed across versions of the paragraphs. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Usage, Memory, Reading Processes, Recall (Psychology)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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