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The experiment investigated the effect of stimulus type on formal similarity (FS) between stimuli and Ss primary associations to them. Word (W) and nonsense (NS) stimuli were employed. FS was defined as percentages of letters appearing in the same ordinal positions in associations as in stimuli. Results indicated that FS between NS stimuli and their primaries consistently exceeded chance while that between W stimuli and their primaries exceeded chance in only one of six cases.
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Rosen, S.M., Greenhouse, P. The effect of stimulus type on formal similarity between stimuli and their primary associations. Psychon Sci 22, 66–67 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332496
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