Effects of Organizational Signals on Free Recall of Expository Text

Two experiments involving 139 college students investigated how text memory was influenced by organizational signaling devices. Signals frequently did not affect how much was recalled from the text, but they did systematically affect what was remembered, supporting a hypothesis that signals aid in c...

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Published inJournal of educational psychology Vol. 88; no. 1; p. 38
Main Authors Lorch, Robert F., Jr, Lorch, Elizabeth Pugzles
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.03.1996
Subjects
Advance Organizers
College Students
Expository Writing
Higher Education
Organizational Signals
Recall (Psychology)
Signalers
Text Organization
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Summary:Two experiments involving 139 college students investigated how text memory was influenced by organizational signaling devices. Signals frequently did not affect how much was recalled from the text, but they did systematically affect what was remembered, supporting a hypothesis that signals aid in construction of a topic structure representation. (SLD)
ISSN:0022-0663
DOI:10.1037/0022-0663.88.1.38