Inferences in the Comprehension of and Memory for Text. Technical Report No. 49 [electronic resource] / Ernest T. Goetz.

Two studies investigated whether variations in the importance of inferences and the salience of premises within a text would affect the probability that the inference would be made. Six stories of about 500 words were used, with eight variations of each story. The target inference, and its plausibil...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Goetz, Ernest T.
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.
Subjects:	Cognitive Processes. Memory. Prose. Reading Comprehension. Reading Processes. Reading Research. Recall (Psychology) Secondary Education.