“…Typically, correlations show r = .8 are obtained between predicted and observed recall frequencies for the semantic units of a text (e.g., Kintsch & van Dijk, 1978;Kozminsky, Kintsch, & Bourne, 1981;Miller & Kintsch, 1980: Spilich, Vesonder, Chiesi, & Voss, 1979Vipond, 1980).s Probably, if one just asked people to tell how well each semantic unit of a text would be remembered. their intuitions would also be as good as the model, but it makes a difference that .uch predictions can be derived from an at least partially explicit formal model.…”