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Selected stimulus items were repeated in a booklet testing continued word associations. Ss had been instructed to treat any such recurrence as a new encounter, neither trying consciously to repeat nor to avoid repeating their earlier responses. Slightly fewer than half of the original responses were repeated by individuals, although total production was about the same. Correlations indicated high stability of common response probabilities and low to moderate stability of ordinal positions of responses.
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1. This study was conducted while the senior author was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Supporting Research Laboratory, U. S. Army Human Engineering Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The cooperation extended by Dr. John D. Weisz, Chief, and members of his staff is gratefully acknowledged.
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Andreas, B.G., Mills, M. Stability of response strength hierarchies in continued word association. Psychon Sci 7, 129–130 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328499
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