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Subjects read, sentence by sentence, one of two versions of a text describing a small town. The route version described the town as a driver might encounter it, and the survey version represented the town in spatial terms. Three feedback conditions were used. One group of readers had limited access to a map. The second group could reread a limited number of sentences. The third group read the entire version in paragraph form. There were no differences between conditions in semantic memory, defined as order and number of propositions recalled, or in surface memory, defined as recognition of old/new sentences. However, the sentence feedback proved superior for the route version in inferential (situation) memory, and text feedback was superior for the survey text. This suggests that feedback type that is congruent with the text version is more effective with regard to more complex memorial processes.
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This article is based in part on a presentation at the 1991 meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
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Langer, P., Keenan, V. & Cumbo, K. The effects of text version and feedback type on memorial representations. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 30, 373–376 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334093
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