Advanced Outlines, Familiarity, and Text Genre on Retention of Prose.

摘要: This study examined how retention of prose is affected by (1) outlines as advanced organizers, (2) preexperimentai familiarity with the material, and (3) text genre (i.e., narrative vs. expository prose). College students studied either a two-level outline, one-level or no outline before listening to 400 500 word passages that varied in narrativity. Subjects were subsequently given cued recall test 3-Alternative, Forced Choice on passages. Whereas condition had significant effects retention, narrativity ratings predicted between 38% 84% variance scores. Stories recalled much better than These findings discussed context current theories cognitive psychology, particularly those have explored structure, organization, representation knowledge prose.