Exam 7: Discourse Comprehension and Memory

_______ connects individual sentences and ideas in a discourse.

Anomalous suspense occurs when:

The type of cohesion in which we use an expression to refer back to something previously mentioned in discourse is called ____ reference.

The three representations of discourse are:

The difficulty of reading passages has been found to depend on:

Reder and Anderson (1980) compared recall of standard passages with recall of passages with many details omitted. They found that retention was:

By replacing (rather than repeating) a lexical item in a sentence, we are using the form of cohesion known as:

McKoon and Ratliff's (1980) study of spreading activation showed that the greatest degree of priming was between propositions:

A structure in semantic memory that specifies the general or expected arrangement of a body of information is called a:

Perrig and Kintsch (1985) found that when a text used sentences such as North of the highway just east of the river is a gas station, subjects were more likely to store the text in the form of:

The sentences The woman lost track of her little boy at the mall. She became very worried illustrate what type of cohesion?

Daneman and Carpenter (1980) found that students with better performance on the reading span task:

Cross-cultural investigations of story recall have found that:

Palincsar and Brown (1984) were able to demonstrate substantial increases in student reading comprehension when:

According to the text discussion, students might have difficulty remembering the most important points in a lecture because:

Studies of the processing of episodes have found that:

Jarvella (1971) presented individuals with a long oral passage, interrupted it at irregular intervals, and had them write down as much of the preceding discourse as they could, verbatim. The results showed that the percentage of correct recall of a clause was greater if:

Studies of the role of titles in text comprehension have shown that:

Which of the following was NOT a focus of the Daneman and Carpenter (1980) study?

The local structure of a text refers to: