Effects of Preexisting Beliefs and Repeated Readings on Belief Change, Comprehension, and Recall of Persuasive Text.

Kardash, CarolAnne M.; Scholes, Roberta J.

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Publication Date: 1995

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Effects of Preexisting Beliefs and Repeated Readings on Belief Change, Comprehension, and Recall of Persuasive Text.

Kardash, CarolAnne M.; Scholes, Roberta J.

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v20 n2 p201-21 Apr 1995

Studied how preexisting beliefs about the transmission of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) interact with repeated reading of a persuasive text to influence the nature of information encoded from the text with 61 undergraduates. Preexisting beliefs appeared to influence retrieval but not encoding processes. (SLD)

Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Attitude Change, Beliefs, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Persuasive Discourse, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology), Undergraduate Students

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Language: English

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