12 Comprehension
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“Comprehension” refers to both a set of empirical phenomena and a theoretical construct. The phenomena are ill defined, because the concept of comprehension that psychologists took over from everyday language use is fuzzy, as such concepts are. In practice, however, most psychological research on comprehension has dealt with discourse comprehension. In discourse comprehension for skilled adult readers, analytical reasoning is required only when the normal course of understanding breaks down: normal reading or listening is more akin to perception than to problem solving. As a theoretical construct, therefore, “comprehension” contrasts with conscious, deliberate problem solving. Perception and comprehension can both be described as spontaneous constraint satisfaction processes. Consider, for example, the classical sentence pair:
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