Millis, K. K., Graesser, A. C., & Haberlandt, K. F. (1993). The impact of connectives on the memory for expository texts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7(4), 317-339.

Millis, K.; Graesser, A.; Haberlandt, K.

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Millis, K. K., Graesser, A. C., & Haberlandt, K. F. (1993). The impact of connectives on the memory for expository texts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7(4), 317-339.

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Three experiments investigated the influence of connectives on memory for expository text. Ss in Exps 1 and 2 read and later recalled passages with either no connectives, temporal connectives, causal connectives, or intentional connectives. The recall for passages without connectives was higher than the recall for passages with connectives. Results partially supported a semantic complexity hypothesis, which predicted that recall should increase with the semantic complexity of the connective (i.e., temporal

The connectives did not increase the memory for texts in experiment 1. Instead, the no-connective condition resulted in higher recall scores than each of the connective condition. However, the no-connective condition only resulted in significantly greater recall than the temporal connective condition.

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