PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Saccade, Eye Tracking, Pragmatics
31 Mar 2017
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Chapter 10: comprehension - written and spoken language. Recall miller"s five levels of language: phonology, syntax, semantics, concept, and belief: we are now exploring the last two levels more in-depth: concept and belief. Traditional comprehension research previous research on language and comprehension focused on people"s linguistic tuitions: i. e. sachs study. Gernsbacher"s theory of discourse comprehension is called the structure building framework (see table. Gernsbacher"s framework to the idea of spreading activation: enhancement: the boosting of concepts" levels of activation during comprehension, suppression: activated nodes that become unrelated to the focus decrease in activation. Situation model: a representation of the real-world situation described in a passage of text: not a proposition or structure, but the higher-level representation of the situation described in those sentences (includes temporal and spatial information) Rinck and bower conducted a study in which subjects memorized a diagram of a research lab with rooms containing different things (i. e. the office had a shelf, desk, etc.
