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Damen, Debby; van der Wijst, Per; van Amelsvoort, Marije; Krahmer, Emiel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Perceivers of other minds often overestimate the similarity between their own and other people's perspectives. This egocentric projection during perspective-taking is argued to originate from perceivers' tendency to use their own perspective as a referential anchor from which they insufficiently adjust away to account for an alternative…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Reader Response, Psychological Patterns, Prior Learning
Schmidt, Henk G.; Patel, Vimla L. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which problem analysis facilitated the subsequent processing of expository text, both for novices and a comparison group. A text on osmosis consisted of six-pages and was used as reading material. The ninth-grade students were considered novices because they were unfamiliar with the…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries