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The constant learning-time hypothesis and predictions from frequency theory regarding intentional and incidental verbal-discrimination learning were tested under three exposure rates. Mean trials and errors were higher under the 1:1 sec rate, but total time was greater with the 4:4 sec rate. Incidental associative recall was greatest within the 4:4 sec rate and was symmetrical under the 2:2 and 4:4 sec rates, but asymmetrical in the 1:1 sec condition. The results were explained from an analysis assuming a differential distribution of frequency mechanisms to wrong and right items associated with exposure rate.
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1. The author is grateful to Donald H. Kausler who read an earlier draft of the present paper and offered helpful suggestions and to Kenneth McElroy who ran the Ss. The essential results of the study were presented in a paper read at SWPA, New Orleans, 1968.
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Kanak, N.J. The effects of rate of exposure upon simultaneous intentional and incidental verbal-discrimination learning. Psychon Sci 12, 141–142 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331239
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