TY - JOUR
T1 - Information recalled from prose by young, middle, and old adult readers
AU - Meyer, Bonnie J.F.
AU - Elizabeth Rice, G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by Grant MH 31520 from the National Institute of Mental Health and an Arizona State University Faculty Grant. We would like to thank Catharine Knight for her special concern and work with the subjects and Janice Jessen for her assistance in scoring their recall protocols. 'Both authors are from the Department of Educational Psychology, Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona 85281,
PY - 1981
Y1 - 1981
N2 - The effects of organizational variables in prose on recall are examined for college-educated adults in three age groups. If older adults suffer a deficit in organizational processes [3], this may be manifest in lower quantities of prose recall, difficulty in identifying and following the text's structure and main ideas, and diminished "levels effects” (information high in the hierarchical text structure recalled better than information low). The study reported tests these implications using Meyer's [13] prose analysis system to identify text structure. No age differences were found in total recall and recall of main ideas. However, young adults exhibited the typical levels effects,” while middle and old adults did not. This difference was attributed to the effects of current schooling practices on the youngest group, rather than organizational or reading comprehension deficits in the aged.
AB - The effects of organizational variables in prose on recall are examined for college-educated adults in three age groups. If older adults suffer a deficit in organizational processes [3], this may be manifest in lower quantities of prose recall, difficulty in identifying and following the text's structure and main ideas, and diminished "levels effects” (information high in the hierarchical text structure recalled better than information low). The study reported tests these implications using Meyer's [13] prose analysis system to identify text structure. No age differences were found in total recall and recall of main ideas. However, young adults exhibited the typical levels effects,” while middle and old adults did not. This difference was attributed to the effects of current schooling practices on the youngest group, rather than organizational or reading comprehension deficits in the aged.
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U2 - 10.1080/03610738108259809
DO - 10.1080/03610738108259809
M3 - Article
C2 - 7318854
AN - SCOPUS:0019837381
SN - 0361-073X
VL - 7
SP - 253
EP - 268
JO - Experimental Aging Research
JF - Experimental Aging Research
IS - 3
ER -