{"pk":33086,"title":"Question Answering in the Context of Illustrated Expository Text","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigated how college students answer questions \nabout the content of illustrated expository text. Subjects \nstudied illustrated texts describing causal event chains that \nunfold during the operation of everyday machines. \nSubjects subsequently provided written answers to \nquestions about events occurring in each machine. Four \ntypes of questions were asked: why did event X occur?. \nhow did X occur?, what are the consequences pf X \noccurring?, and what if X didn't occur?. In our analysis of \nthe answer protocols, we adopted the theoretical framework \nof the QUES T model of human question answering \n(Graesser & Franklin, 1990). The present study supported \npredictions generated from three components of the QUEST \nmodel: question categorization, utilization of information \nsources, and convergence principles. Our results also \nrevealed two novel findings. First, subjects had a bias \ntoward sampling information from the text more than from \nthe picture. Second, subjects tended to sample infontiation \ndepicted in both the text and the picture.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nq6t6mh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Baggett","name_suffix":"","institution":"The University of Memphis","department":""},{"first_name":"Arthur","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Graesser","name_suffix":"","institution":"The University of Memphis","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33086/galley/24147/download/"}]}