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With regard to the testing of words varying in rated imagery, subjects were given one of three expectations (recognition, recall, none). Recall-expectation groups produced the largest performance differences for low-imagery and high-imagery words. In contrast to previous research, the best performance was not always produced by a match between test expected and test received.
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Hebenton, B. The effect of test type expectation on memory for low-imagery and high-imagery words. Current Psychological Research 1, 39–43 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02684424
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