The episode schema in story processing
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal BehaviorPublished 1 December 1980
Karl Haberlandt, Claire Berian, Jennifer Sandson
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Abstract
In two reading and recall experiments we found evidence that readers use the episode schema in encoding the information of simple two-episode stories. The pattern of reading times per node, controlled for other factors affecting reading time, supported the hypothesis that the encoding load was greater at the boundary nodes than at the remaining nodes of an episode. The effects of six variables on observed reading time per node, including the number of words, number of propositions, and serial position of a node, were factored out by multiple regression analyses. Two alternative accounts of the reading time pattern, namely, that it was due to sentence-level factors or to a general chunking strategy, were ruled out by appropriate control conditions. These results support the validity of the episode as a macrounit of narratives.
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