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Changes in the frequencies with which items elicited claimed or stated associates were studied before and after the items had participated in mediation and in control paradigms. The interpolated mediation-control task yielded reliable evidence of mediated facilitation. More associates were claimed on the second than on the first association test but the increase did not appear to be influenced by the particular conditions of the interpolated task.
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This research was supported by Public Health Service Research Grant MH-07944. The report was partially prepared at the Institute of Human Learning, University of California, Berkeley, which is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The assistance of Marsha Weinstein Mabel is gratefully acknowledged.
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Peterson, M.J. Mediated meaningfulness?. Psychon Sci 5, 61–62 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328280
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