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Groups of second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade school children were asked to indicate whether or not each of 81 words being presented aurally had been presented previously. Using this short-term recognition task, verbal generalization to words related antonymically, synonymically, and phonetographically to the critical repeated word was demonstrated. Generalization was greatest for phonetographically related words.
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The authors would like to thank Drs. Robert A. Baron and Harold R. Keller for their assistance in the preparation of this manuscript.
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Poteat, B.W.S., Kasschau, R.A. Generalization in short-term recognition of auditory verbal stimuli. Psychon Sci 17, 358–359 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335280
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