Resumen de The effect of organization on learning from an informative message

Christopher H. Spicer, Ronald E. Bassett

• This study was an experimental investigation of the effects of informative message organization on listener learning. Two message versions were employed. The organized version consisted of a chronologically ordered description of the rules of the game Risk. The disorganized version consisted of the rules rearranged in non‐sequential fashion. Results indicated that Ss hearing the organized version achieved significantly higher scores on a subsequent learning measure than Ss hearing the disorganized version of the message. Implications for future research are offered and implications for message organization as a critical speech communication variable are discussed.