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Autor/inn/en | Engle, Randall W.; und weitere |
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Titel | Is "Working Memory Capacity" Just Another Name for Word Knowledge? |
Quelle | In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 82 (1990) 4, S.799-804Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0022-0663 |
Schlagwörter | Causal Models; Correlation; Higher Education; Individual Differences; Knowledge Level; Reading Comprehension; Reading Skills; Thinking Skills; Undergraduate Students; Verbal Tests; Vocabulary Skills; Word Frequency; Word Recognition; SAT (College Admission Test) |
Abstract | An experiment in which 90 undergraduate students were tested on simple and complex versions of a word-span task with high and low frequency words suggests that both word knowledge and a content-free working memory play causal roles in the relationship between word span and higher level cognitive tasks. (SLD) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |