Retrieval of Explicit and Implicit Text Ideas: Processing Profiles: Murray Singer and Gilbert Remillard
Franz Schmalhofer, Charles A. Perfetti · Psychology Press eBooks · 2007
Two central goals of the information processing approach to discourse comprehension have been (a) the identification of the mental processes of deriving meaning from verbal messages and (b) the characterization of the resulting representations. In this chapter we describe research designed to evaluate the quality of the processes of retrieving previously encountered text ideas and to thereby assess representations from which the retrieved ideas were derived. More specifically, we set out to measure the relative contributions of recollection and familiarity to text retrieval, as diagnosed by the process dissociation procedure (Jacoby, 1991; see also Mandler, 1980). The intention was to compare the retrieval profiles for explicit text ideas, bridging inferences, and elaborative inferences. These comparisons were considered to bear on the representation of those idea classes.