Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Suling, Children'S Book Council Of Australia, Word Lists By Frequency
15 Dec 2012
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One method for studying the difficulty of comprehension is to measure reading speed. Gernsbacher"s structure building framework to understanding text: laying a foundation, mapping information onto the foundation, shifting to build new structures. Research has showed that people slow down when they read the first sentence of a paragraph because they are building a foundation for the ideas that follow. Bransford and johnson: found effect of context was useful, but only if people were aware of the context before reading the passage, background knowledge isn"t sufficient if people don"t recognize the appropriate context. Believed other information in other perspective wasn"t important so didn"t recall it. Most probable: new perspective provided them with a plan for searching memory. Prior knowledge can inflence the comprehension and recall of text in a variety of ways. Prior knowledge can make abstract ideas seem less abstract and easier to comprehend.
