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Subjects were presented a PA list composed of one high and one low distinctive word as the compound stimulus and a single digit as the response. Recall of digits on a test trial to single words was a function of distinctiveness when Ss could not produce the remaining stimulus word for a. group asked to recall the digits first. No such effects were found when Ss were asked to recall the words first. The results were interpreted to indicate that stimulus selection occurs and that response recall is based on the ability to recall the more distinctive stimulus.
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Leonard, S.D., Jacobus, K.A. Locus of the effect of distinctiveness on response recall. Psychon Sci 14, 284–285 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329125
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329125