Abstract

HENRIQUES, Vânia Francisca Cícero de Sá  and  SOARES, Adriana Benevides. A compreensão de textos em condições de compartilhamento da atenção. Psicol. pesq. [online]. 2008, vol.2, n.2, pp. 87-95. ISSN 1982-1247.

This study proposes to investigate the understanding of texts under sharing attention situations. 75 students from high school were divided in two groups: the high-quality proficient in text understanding and the less one . We used a questionnaire to collect socio-demographic variables, a text and its questionnaire and a supplementary text that was displayed on the computer with its questionnaire. The first step was to apply the questionnaire for the participant and the first text with his questionnaire. At the end of this phase, participants were classified as good and less proficient. The second step was to answer the second questionnaire and its text under three different conditions: in silence, exposed to a musical sound and listening to a football game narration. The results have shown that high-quality proficient in text understanding presents better performance under the three conditions and that high-quality proficient in text understanding and less one have better perform under silence situation.

Keywords : Focus of attention; Text comprehension; Performance.

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