Causally, this relationship can go in two directions: attention guiding comprehension, or what is being comprehended guiding attention.
For example, it is possible that assessment scores derived from a verbal paragraph analysis are strongly correlated with scores derived from an assessment of mathematical word problems; in this case, it may be that reading comprehension is in fact the construct that is being captured by these assessments.
Rep. Upton said that "looking serious and nodding our heads a lot" contributed to the illusion that committee members had even scant comprehension of what was being discussed.
Some participants were concerned that no separate signed consent would lead to a passive or cavalier disregard for the consent process, loss of legal protections for patients, inadequate assessment of a patient's comprehension that they are being tested, inadequate transfer of information, and lack of truly informed consent.
Other possible preventive measures might include equipping young people with the media literacy skills to promote critical thinking about, and comprehension of, the messages that are being portrayed in these types of media so that they can evaluate them in relation to their own lives, communities and culture.
Despite an attempt to discuss human rights principles of participation and non-discrimination in the context of disaster and relief food, comprehension was low and there were was general apathy towards discussing issues of accountability and transparency.
Mendes said: "I decided to take part in this sketch because the work Comic Relief undertakes, especially in West Africa, for people whose suffering is beyond our comprehension is truly exceptional.
Full comprehension is not to be achieved by establishing firm fundamentals, important though they are, but must frequently remain a tentative process, a step at a time, with frequent recourse to experiment and observation in the event that prediction and reality have diverged too far.
Each iteration is sufficiently alike that comprehension is unproblematic, but also sufficiently unique that the meaning of a word cannot be fixed.
Comprehension is not the game.
