The effects of reading goal on text processing were investigated by manipulating three factors: The reading goal, the amount of available resource and the amount of required resource. The first was manipulated by giving subjects the different reading goals (essay, rating). The second was manipulated by the amount of concurrent task. The third was manipulated by abstractness of texts. Two experiments were carried out, and in both experiments subjects were asked to recall the text unexpectedly after hearing the text. In the first experiment with seventy-two college students as subjects, the first and second factors were manipulated and the main effect of reading goal was obtained as the results. In the second experiment with forty-four subjects, the first and third were manipulated and the interaction between both factors was obtained.
