- Training in this experiment aims to manipulate the text processing strategy the participants use 
- The training taught participants in the two training conditions to mentally organize the text information hierarchically to better recall the text 

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

- 140 college students from psychology classes at the University of Kentucky 
- Passages used in the experiment are expository 
4 experiment conditions: 
- text with headings and with training 
- text with headings and without training 
- text without headings and with training 
- text without headings and without training 

Experiment design

Sanchez, Rebecca Polley ; Lorch, Elizabeth Pugzles ; Lorch, Robert F. (n.d.). Effects of Headings on Text Processing Strategies. Contemporary educational psychology. San Diego, CA: Elsevier Inc.

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