Multiple Choice
People's inability to recall the abstract, unfamiliar statements in Bransford and Johnson's experiment illustrated the important role of prior knowledge in
A) comprehension.
B) causing recall of false information.
C) predicting readability.
D) providing a retrieval plan.
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