Reading goals affect post-validation representation-building rather than validation processes directly¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The combined pattern—goal effects on overall reading times and on memory for congruent but not incongruent targets, with no goal effects on validation-specific processing—suggests reading goals influence representation-building after inconsistency detection rather than validation itself. → Moort 2022

Evidence¶

Moort 2022¶

Moort, M. L. van, Koornneef, A. W., Wilderjans, T. F., & Broek, P. W. van den. (2022). Validation processes and reading purpose: Is validation against knowledge and prior text influenced by reading goal? Journal of Educational Psychology, 114(7), 1533-1552. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000769

q2 · i? · causal · r?

This is the authors' interpretation (type e) of the combined online and offline results of the self-paced reading experiment with recognition memory testing the next day. The article states that "reading goals may not influence validation processes directly but affect subsequent representation-building processes after the detection of an (in)consistency."

"These results suggest that read-ing goals may not influence validation processes directly but affect subsequent representation-building processes after the detection of an (in)consistency— particularly in the case of incongruencies with prior text."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Reading goal × congruency interaction on memory: study goal improves memory for congruent but not incongruent targets — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Both text incongruency and knowledge inaccuracy produce increased reading times on target sentences — related
• Reading goals do not influence validation processes: no goal × congruency or goal × accuracy interactions on reading times — related