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Two experiments, one with lists containing items of mixed meaningfulness and the other with lists of unmixed meaningfulness, related response familiarization, via free recall learning, to subsequent paired-associate learning. Both relevant and irrelevant familiarization were superior to no familiarization, but the advantage of relevant over irrelevant familiarization was limited to responses of low meaningfulness only and to the unmixed condition only.
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Davenport, D.G., Kausler, D.H., Mueller, J.H. et al. Response familiarization and subsequent paired-associate learning for mixed and unmixed lists of differential meaningfulness. Psychon Sci 5, 391–392 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328455
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