کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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352723 | 618615 | 2011 | 9 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

Three questions regarding adult readers’ processing of generalization inferences (conceptually broad statements that subsume several specific statements) are investigated. College students (N = 193) read expository texts containing target statements that were consistent, inconsistent, or off-topic in relation to a generalization implied by one paragraph. Reading times were faster for consistent than inconsistent statements and faster for inconsistent than off-topic statements, indicating adult readers construct generalization inferences online during initial reading of a text and that the inference they construct is relatively narrow in scope. This pattern of faster reading time for consistent sentences occurred under different reading goals, suggesting generalization inferences are a pervasive component of expository text comprehension.
► Readers construct broad generalization inferences to subsume subordinate statements.
► The generalizations inferred are specific and narrow in scope.
► The generalizations are inferred under a variety of reading goals.
Journal: Contemporary Educational Psychology - Volume 36, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 280–288