Brief Research Report : Adaptive Construction of Mental Representations in Understanding Expository Texts  

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Schnotz, Wolfgang

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Contemporary Educational Psychology vol. 18 no. 01 (Jan. 1993), page 114-120.
Topik: KNOWLEDGE; knowledge; texts; mental model; reading

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C15 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Starting from the assumption that text comprehension is a flexible strategic process, this study investigated how readers with different levels of prior knowledge adapt their processing to different degrees of thematic continuity / discontinuity of text organization. A discontinuous text proved to be more difficult to understand. Subjects with higher prior knowledge, however, processed such a text more intensively, were not reduced in their comprehension scores, and recalled details even significantly better than after reading a continuous text. In contrast, readers with lower prior knowledge processed the discontinuous text rather superficially and, consequently, reached lower comprehension and recall scores than after reading a continuous text. The results are discussed in a theoretical framework which assumes that text comprehension includes both the formation of propositional representations and the construction of mental models.

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