ABSTRACT
The title of this paper indicates that I am interested in a broad range of behaviors that are all in some way relevant to story comprehension: recalling and summarizing, describing pictures, sorting paragraphs from a story, or rating various objects, such as sentences from a story, whole stories, or summaries of stories. The major concern of this paper will be what such behaviors indicate about the psychological processes involved in story comprehension. The concern of this paper is not with comprehension in general, but with a particular type of text: stories — in fact, stories of the simplest kind. The reason for this restriction will become apparent below, after a brief discussion of the multiplicity of psychological processes that are (or may be) involved in language comprehension.
