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Three groups of Ss were required to learn a 10-item PA list subsequent to relevant response pretraining (Group R), irrelevant pretraining (Group IRR) and no pretraining (Group N). Eye movements were monitored during the first 6 of 12 PA trials. Ss of Group R showed superior learning, and an earlier convergence of response and stimulus fixation functions than either of the other two groups. All Ss exhibited a transition from S-R to S-R-S viewing as learning progressed. These findings were discussed in the light of a two-stage notion of verbal PA learning.
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1. This research was supported by a grant-in-aid from the Associate Committee on Experimental Psychology of the National Research Council of Canada (Grant APA-78) and represents a B. A. (Honours) thesis on the part of the senior investigator.
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Moore, T.E., McCormack, P.D. Monitoring eye movements while studying the effects of response familiarization on paired-associate learning. Psychon Sci 12, 269–270 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331304
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