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A study by Maltzman, Kantor, and Langdon and one by Yarmey did not obtain the Kleinsmith and Kaplan finding of poor immediate recall of high arousal material. However, on both methodological and theoretical grounds their results are not inconsistent with this previous finding. Important methodological departures from the Kleinsmith and Kaplan design include the free recall procedure in one case and rapid presentation rate in the other. Further, both studies failed to use a concurrent measure to classify the items for each S, making assessment of the relevance of their results difficult.
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1. Work on this paper was supported by Research Grant MH-11599 from the National Institute of Mental Health, United States Public Health Service.
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Kaplan, S., Kaplan, R. Arousal and memory: A comment. Psychon Sci 10, 291–292 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331525
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