Situation Models
When people experience a story, the phase of comprehension is where people form a mental representation about the text(Zwaan 15) The mental representation that is formed is called a situation model.
The situation models are mental representations of the state of affairs described in a text rather than of the text itself. Much of the research on situation models in narrative comprehension suggests that those who comprehend behave as though they are in the narrated situation rather than outside of it. This supports Fisher’s model where the components that Fisher states are valid by determining good reasons are related to those that are formed in the situation models.
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