20 female and 13 male psychology students studied a series of self-contained complexes of information on Egyptian pyramids. Each of three versions was studied by 11 subjects. In Version A the information complexes were presented in random serial order, in Version B this series was structured by insertion of four subtitles, in Version C the serial order was altered to facilitate learning. Serial structures of B- and C-reproductions agreed better with the original texts than A-reproductions. Versions did not differ with respect to the amount of reproduced information.
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