Table 3. Arcsine transformed proportions (and standard deviations) of the think-aloud processes by condition and working memory.
Study Condition |
Entertainment Condition |
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Think-Aloud Process |
Text Type | Low WMa (n = 19) |
High WM (n = 17) |
Low WM (n = 15) |
High WM (n = 17) |
Paraphrases | Compare-Contrast | .65 (.33) | .81 (.28) | .67 (.36) | .49 (.29) |
Descriptive | .67 (.36) | .83 (.36) | .78 (.31) | .61 (.33) | |
Problem-Response | .58 (.33) | .74 (.38) | .53 (.39) | .45 (.31) | |
Chronological | .58 (.39) | .90 (.39) | .76 (.30) | .51 (.35) | |
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Text-Based Inferences |
Compare-Contrast | .18 (.22) | .30 (.19) | .32 (.18) | .21 (.23) |
Descriptive | .25 (.22) | .23 (.17) | .09 (.12) | .17 (.20) | |
Problem-Response | .23 (.19) | .30 (.21) | .23 (.22) | .19 (.21) | |
Chronological | .20 (.24) | .24 (.27) | .08 (.17) | .25 (.21) | |
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Knowledge- Based Inferences |
Compare-Contrast | .54 (.28) | .54 (.27) | .45 (.24) | .66 (.25) |
Descriptive | .51 (.28) | .46 (.27) | .29 (.25) | .58 (.30) | |
Problem-Response | .53 (.34) | .67 (.23) | .55 (.20) | .71 (.29) | |
Chronological | .51 (.28) | .43 (.28) | .53 (.25) | .62 (.37) | |
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Non- Coherence Processes |
Compare-Contrast | .42 (.33) | .20 (.26) | .35 (.35) | .59 (.45) |
Descriptive | .27 (.35) | .25 (.30) | .40 (.46) | .52 (.38) | |
Problem-Response | .37 (.32) | .31 (.36) | .41 (.39) | .63 (.42) | |
Chronological | .44 (.42) | .12 (.33) | .41 (.49) | .66 (.58) |
WM = Working Memory