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This experiment was a further test of the hypothesis that in serial learning an item serves as an effective stimulus for the next item. All Ss studied the same four lists, each of eight words. Half then learned a list of four pairs of words, the pairs selected from different original lists but each consisting of previously adjacent words. The other Ss also learned a list of eight words selected from the original items, but all previously nonadjacent. For both groups each word had the same serial position in both its original and derived list. The findings are interpreted as consistent with the hypothesis tested.
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1. Supported by the Graduate Research Fund of the University of Washington. Appreciation is expressed to Mr. James Skucy for his assistance in gathering the data.
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McKeever, B. The preceding item as cue for a response in serial learning. Psychon Sci 11, 51–52 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330985
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