INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

IN COMPREHENSION SKILLS
There are individual difference In reading and
text processing. Different people understand text
differently.
According to Yuill less-skilled comprehenders
draw fewer inferences when processing text or
discourse, and are also less well able to integrate
meaning across utterances.
 Differences
Working or short-term memory is used for storing
currently active ideas and for the short-term storage of
mental computations.
Example ..A high span memory will help us to store
information for long time and enable more inferences
to be drawn.
 Prior knowledge
Prior knowledge provides a framework for
understanding new material, activates appropriate
concepts more easily, and affects the processing of
inferences. It helps us to decide what is important and
relevant in material and what is less so.
 Skilled comprehenders
Skilled comprehenders are also better able to suppress
irrelevant and inappropriate materia.
Suppression can be distinguished from the related
attentional process of inhibition that is important in
attentional expectancy-based priming Suppression is
the attenuating of activation, whereas inhibition is the
blocking of activation
Suppression requires that material becomes activated
before it can be suppressed. Reading activates a great
deal of material, and skilled comprehenders are better
able to suppress that material that is less relevant to the
task at hand.
How to become a better reader
PQ4R
Preview.
• Questions.
• Read.
Reflect
Recite
Review.