Taking Different Perspectives on a Story.

Pichert, James W.; Anderson, Richard C.

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Publication Date: 1977

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Taking Different Perspectives on a Story

Pichert, James W.; Anderson, Richard C.

Journal of Educational Psychology, 69, 4, 309-15, Aug 77

College undergraduates read stories from one of two directed perspectives or no directed perspective. An idea's significance in terms of the assigned perspective affected both initial learning and recall one week later. Schemata, or conceptual frameworks, were assumed to aid in memory and retrieval. (Author/GDC)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education, Memory, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology)

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