Two consequences of generating: Increased inter- and intraword organization of sentences
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TL;DR
Two patterns of results emerged on different measures of retention, which suggest that generating, as compared to reading, results in an increase in the semantic interword integration of words in sentences.
Abstract
Five experiments examined two consequences of generating, as compared to reading, sentences that were either meaningful or anomalous. Two patterns of results emerged on different measures of retention. The first pattern, which showed a generation effect with the meaningful sentences but not with the anomalous sentences, was obtained with a cued-recall and a word-pair recognition test. This finding suggests that generating, as compared to reading, results in an increase in the semantic interword integration of words in sentences. The second pattern, which showed a generation effect with both the meaningful and the anomalous sentences, was obtained with a word recognition test. This finding suggests that generating, as compared to reading, also results in an increase in the intraword integration of words in sentences.