Expository Text Comprehension: Prior Knowledge and Working Memory

Expository Text Comprehension: Prior Knowledge and Working Memory

This paper examines the comprehension of general and disciplinary expository texts as a function of previous domain-specific knowledge, and working memory capacity. Novices or experts in psychology topics read a general expository text and a disciplinary expository text. Two measures of comprehensio...

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Main Authors: Saux, Gastón, Burin, Débora, Irrazabal, Natalia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2012-08-01
Series:Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento
Subjects:
Expository Text
Reading Comprehension
Prior Knowledge
Working Memory
Online Access:http://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/5170/5335

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