Referential Coherence and Structural Height in Text Processing.

McCown, Rick R.; Miller, Raymond B.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Referential Coherence and Structural Height in Text Processing.

McCown, Rick R.; Miller, Raymond B.

American Educational Research Journal, v23 n1 p77-86 Spr 1986

Two explanations of the levels effect in text memory were examined in two experiments. Results supported the predictions of the referential coherence formulation and failed to support the structural height account. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Higher Education, Language Processing, Learning Processes, Memory, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology), Recognition (Psychology), Schemata (Cognition)

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Language: English

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