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ERIC Number: EJ156044
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Retention of Related and Unrelated Sentences
White, Richard T.; Gagne, Robert M.
Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 6, 843-52, Dec 76
The storage and retrieval of individual sentences occuring in small sets was substantially enhanced when the sentences were nominally linked by common concepts and when the learner was encouraged to process them semantically. Sentence recall was also positively increased when the learner perceived them to be in a meaningful order. (RC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, High School Students, Organization, Reading Processes, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology), Semantics, Sentences
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