Repeat Benefit Effects On The Text Reading

Text reading is one of the most complex and unique cognitive activities of human people and is also an important way for us to get information. Text reading research is one important area at reading psychology and it has been a hot point in experiment psychology for a long time.In this study, we first reviewed the development of research on the text reading, and summarized the main theories of text reading research. Then taking the text repetition effects as the breakthrough point, we analyzed the main dispute on the text repetition effects. At last, we conducted three experiments to discuss that the text repetition effects how to influent the text reading.There are two dominant explanations to explain the source of the facilitation of text repetition effects have been labeled abstract and episodic accounts. Supporters of the abstract view argue that repetition effects result from primed, abstract word representations. The episodic view argue that repetition effects are due to memory for specific events or information within a text. Raney has proposed an alternative to the abstract—episodic dichotomy. His context-dependent representation model attempts to accounts of text repetition by incorporating ideas from van Dijk and Kintsch's model. His model builds upon van Dijk and Kintsch's model by proposing that the three levels of representation reflect different degrees of context dependent. It makes two predictions in regard to the nature of context-dependent text representations and subsequent transfer across reading episodes. On one hand, Raney proposed that it is the degree of overlap at each level of representation that determines the magnitude of the repetition benefit between passages. On the other hand, he also suggested that when a well-developed situation model is established, it binds the surface form and the textbase to the text representation, creating a tightly integrated memory structure that produces repetition benefits only when the same or a similar situation model is reinstated.Three experiment explored the levels of text representation that mediate text repetition effects in Chinese, following the Raney's context dependent continuum model. Participants read a set of short passages, each twice in succession.The second reading was either the same text or a paraphrased version of the original text. Experiment 1 examined whether there had repetition benefits in reading. The result show that there have repetition benefits in reading, and people tend to naming a title to the text. The magnitude of the repetition benefit in Experiment 2 supported predictions of Raney's model, indicating that the ease of forming a situation model contributed to the magnitude of the reprocessing benefit. In addition, representations organized around a good situation model were more sensitive to changes than were representations formed from reading without a good situation model. The result of experiment 3 did not support the suggestion that the surface form and textbase are bound to a well-developed situation model, thereby limiting repetition eddects to similar linguistic contexts. Rather, the nature of the repetition benefits in the present series of experiments are better explained by the degree of overlap between passages at each of the three levels of text representation.