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Procedural Text Structure and Reader Perceptions and Performance
- Source :
- The Journal of General Psychology. 129:18-35
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2002.
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Abstract
- This research tested the relationship between text structural variables (on vs. off the causal chain, active vs. static information, and hierarchical structure) and reader perceptions, reading time, and true-false performance for procedural texts. Twenty-four college-age participants each read 3 procedural texts. As predicted, sentences that were (a) on the causal chain, (b) active, and (c) associated with task steps were read more slowly and judged to be more important (p < .05). The results were similar to those previously found with narratives, except for the hierarchical structure variable. Also as predicted, text differences were found such that as the variation in the type of information contained in the text increased, relationships with the structural variables increased.
- Subjects :
- Male
Time Factors
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Task (project management)
Gender Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Reading (process)
Perception
Causal chain
Humans
Learning
Attention
Narrative
media_common
Structure (mathematical logic)
Analysis of Variance
Communication
business.industry
United States
Variable (computer science)
Variation (linguistics)
Reading
Female
business
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19400888 and 00221309
- Volume :
- 129
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of General Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....13762428482fd47c46f02bd8ed499261