If anything, it was an animal love, the love of an animal that has been living in an incomprehensible world until one day it encounters another of its kind and realizes that it has been applying its comprehension in the wrong place all along.
Since then, as the family scrapes by on state assistance, Mrs. Voitov confesses little comprehension of exactly what went wrong, only that in the past, things were better.
You can practically watch the dawning comprehension that they've chosen the wrong school play out on their faces.
"Obviously, the kid made a mistake," he said, "but the adults being in the sporting goods business had to have some comprehension that what they were doing was wrong".
Binary yes/no answers were used to evaluate self-assessed comprehension, eg, "did you understand what was wrong with you/your diagnosis?" The same questions reformulated to obtain descriptive answers were compared to the discharge document in order to evaluate correct recall, eg, "write in your own words what was wrong with you/your diagnosis".
The destroyed face showed no comprehension of anything except that something was terribly wrong.
All comprehension questions were followed by feedback: "Correct" or "Wrong".
And when you're asked comprehension questions, it's like you picked up the wrong book".
The key is moving beyond simple recall or comprehension checks to meaningful questions that encourage thinking about the solution instead of eliminating wrong answers.
For instance, the comprehension question for the example above was "Do you believe intrusive memories mean something is wrong with you?" If participants indicated 'yes', they saw the word 'incorrect' in red on the computer screen.
9. Reading comprehension.
