Psychological Development and Education ›› 2006, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (4): 35-43.

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Research on the Condition of Accessibility of Goal information in Long-term Memory in Text Reading

LENG Ying, MO Lei   

  1. The Research Centre of Applied Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
  • Online:2006-10-15 Published:2006-10-15

Abstract: Moving window display technique and recognition probes technique were used to investigate the mechanism of accessibility of goal information in long-term memory in teat reading in 138 college students.Experiment 1 designed the uncompleted subgoal condition and the completed subgoal condition,with which the authors tested whether the goal-focus primed the integration of the goal information in readers' long-term mermry.The result showed that the reading time of Target sentence 2 was longer in the completed condition than that in the uncompleted condition.The result suggested the Target sentence 1 severed as signal primed the accessibility of goal information in long-term mermry.Experiment 2 and 3 explored whether the accessibility of the goal information was spontaneous or not.In these twa experiments,the author designed the super goal version and non-super goal version.The goal information through the passages was not integrated in Experiment 2 and was integrated in Experiment 3.The result of Experiment 2 showed the recognition times of goal probe wards in both versions were not significantly different.The result suggested the goal information in long-term memory was not affected the current comprehension when the goal information was not integrated.The result of Experiment 3 showed the recognition times of goal probe words in the super goal version were shorter than that in the non-super goal version.The result suggested the integrating sentence of goal information reactivated the goal in long-term mermry and the situation of the integration of goal information was the critical factor in the accessibility of the goal information in longterm memory.

Key words: text-reading, goal information, memory-based processes, constructivism

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