KINTSCH’S (2013) VOCABULARY AND GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Gist (as in “getting the gist of a text”)

Solve a problem by fiat

Constraint satisfaction process

Mental representation

Mental imagery

Surface-level memory

Proposition (atomic vs. complex)

Propositional network

Rhetorical formats

Microstructure vs. macrostructure

Textbase

Situation model

Encapsulated knowledge

Inference

Classification of inferences (the text mentions: anaphoric, obligatory, bridging, transitive, and
logical inferences)

Reading goal

Top-down theories vs. bottom-up theories

Schema theory

Outliers

Spreading activation

Recall test

“deep” processing

Macrorules (or operations): selection, generalization, and construction

“Post hoc” rules

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)

Priming