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Twenty-eight college students viewed two sets of 30 color photographs each under instructions to look at each picture for as long as they wished. Equal thirds of the stimuli in each set were selected from high, middle, and low complexity levels. The sets were presented 7–10 weeks apart. The results indicated significant between- and within-session correlations that were not dependent on stimulus complexity. It was suggested that the findings were indicative of a consistency in either the rate at which Ss process information or the amount of information they process or both.
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Leckart, B.T., Bakan, P. Reliability of looking time. Perception & Psychophysics 5, 313–314 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03209571
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