INVESTIGADORES
BURIN Debora Ines
artículos
Título:
Conocimiento Previo y Memoria de Trabajo en la Comprensión de Textos Expositivos
Autor/es:
IRRAZABAL, N., BURIN, D. I. & SAUX, G.
Revista:
Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento
Editorial:
AACC - U Nacional de Cordoba
Referencias:
Lugar: Córdoba; Año: 2012 vol. 4 p. 11 - 18
ISSN:
1852-4206
Resumen:
This paper examines the comprehension of general and
disciplinary expository texts as a function of previous
domain-specific knowledge, and working memory capacity. Novices
or experts in psychology topics read a general expository text
and a disciplinary expository text. Two measures of
comprehension were collected: the production of a summary, and
the response to multiple-choice questions. Working memory
capacity was measured with the Reading Span Task. Results
indicated better performance from experts on the disciplinary text. No
differences were found on the general text, or as a function of working
memory, except for expert readers in disciplinary texts. These
results support the hypothesis that previous domain-specific
knowledge is a key factor in differences in text comprehension,
in comparison with the working memory capacity hypothesis.