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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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 largest proposition in each row was the connective category used buy the author. This implies that subjects are able to select appropriate connectives, namely those of the author. Another finding was that subjects chose causal connectives more often than the other connective categories. A third finding was that the majority of connectives that were chosen fell into the three categories of connectives used in the present studies.

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