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Ss were presented given names as test items and asked either to indicate whether each test name was a member of a previously memorized list of names or whether each test name was the name of one of their siblings. The data indicated that the memorized hst of names was scanned in a serial fashion but that (disregarding the case where S had just one sibling) S did not have to scan the list of his own siblings’ names to decide about a test name.
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I would like to thank Tom Borkowski and Steve Torosian for collecting the data reported here.
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Clifton, C. Must overlearned lists be scanned?. Memory & Cognition 1, 121–123 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198079
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