Instantiation in Skilled and Less Skilled Comprehenders

SAGE Publications - Tập 35 Số 3 - Trang 441-450 - 1983
Jane Oakhill1
1Centre for Research on Perception and Cognition, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK

Tóm tắt

Previous research has shown that adults tend to infer particular meanings of words, according to their context, a process that has been termed instantiation. An experiment was carried out to investigate the relation between 7 to 8 year olds’ skill at reading comprehension and their ability to instantiate. A cued recall paradigm was used: the subjects were presented with a series of short sentences, and either the general noun that had appeared in the original sentence, or a particular noun that fitted the context, was given as a cue. The results showed that both skilled and less skilled comprehenders recalled the original sentences equally well, given the original nouns, but that the performance of the skilled group was superior when they were given the particular word cues, indicating that the skilled comprehenders were instantiating more readily. An independent test showed that their superior performance was not attributable to their better general knowledge.

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SAGE Publications

Tập 35 Số 3

441-450

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