background: the comprehension processes are often inferred or explored indirectly through the assessment of the performance of the students on certain tasks. comprehension is typically measured by the techniques in which the test-taker reads a short text and then selects the correct answers in multiple choice questions, true/false and yes/no tasks or matching activities. purpose: a new approach...

Influenced by Bower (Am. Psychol. 36, 129-148, 1981) and Lang (Anxiety and the Anxiety Disorders, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J., 1985), we tested three hypotheses concerning anxious mood and memory: (1) the mood state dependent hypothesis which states that memory retrieval will be greater when mood at encoding and at recall are the same than when they are different: (2) the encoding mood congruent h...

The authors investigated the effect of giving written material on information recall from informed consent counselling for cataract surgery. Fifty English-speaking patients who underwent non-urgent cataract extraction at Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia, were prospectively enrolled. Systematic counselling for cataract surgery was provided, with a written copy of the content given to a r...

in this study, a comparison is made between the results of the end users’ searching of rlst’s databases and those of the information experts’ searching in terms of search time, recall ratio and precision ratio. the study is primarily tasked with comparing the results retrieved through the three different search methods of direct, indirect and mixed. five of rlst’s information experts as well as...

In two experiments, we investigated what types of learning benefit from a cued recall test. After initial exposure to a word pair (A+B), subjects experienced either an intervening cued recall test (A-->?) with feedback, or a restudy presentation (A-->B). The final test could be cued recall in the same (A-->?) or opposite (?-->B) direction, or free recall of just the cues (Recall As) or just the...

This study uses a novel simulation framework to evaluate whether the time and effort necessary to achieve high recall using active learning is reduced by presenting the reviewer with isolated sentences, as opposed to full documents, for relevance feedback. Under the weak assumption that more time and effort is required to review an entire document than a single sentence, simulation results indi...

Starting from the generate-recognise model of free recall, we will be addressing two points. First, we will discuss whether the enactment effect, i.e. better memory of self-performed actions (SPTs) compared to watched experimenter-performed actions (EPT) and to verbal tasks (VT) is due to enhanced relational and/or item information of SPTs. Second, we will propose that at least two different ty...

The role of encoding conditions in producing hypermnesia (increased recall over successive trials) was examined by manipulating the availability of item-specific and relational information at encoding. Our findings demonstrate that encodings providing item-specific information (e.g., elaborative encodings) produce hypermnesia by facilitating the recovery of new items over trials, whereas encodi...

We proceed from the assumption that extracting and representing the meanings of texts that serve as sources for information extraction will enhance the latter’s quality. In particular, we believe that resolving reference in these texts will lead to higher levels of recall in IE because additional information will become available for extraction once it can be captured not simply by matching cha...