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Following five trials of part-list free recall learning and six trials of whole-list free recall learning, Ss were asked to recall the part-list items on two successive trials. Experimental Ss whose whole list contained all of the part-list items recalled more part-list items than did control Ss whose whole list contained none of the part-list items. The data are inconsistent with current notion of subjective organization.
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*This research was supported by a National Research Council of Canada fellowship to the first author and by Research Grant A8266 from the National Research Council of Canada to the second author.
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Carey, S.T., Okada, R. Part-list recall following part-whole learning. Memory & Cognition 1, 172–176 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198090
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198090