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The Ss learned a part list where the words could be placed into one of four Underwood & Richardson (1956) categories and were then transferred to the whole list containing all the words of the part list plus additional words from each category. One group was told prior to part list learning that the words could be categorized, and another group was never given this information. An additional control group was included to assess the effects of information, per se. The results of whole-list learning, which were in the predicted direction but generally nonsignificant, showed a slight superiority for the group receiving information over the group not receiving information.
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This research was partially supported by institutional funds granted to Mississippi State University by the National Science Foundation.
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Hudson, R.L., Davis, J.L. Part-whole transfer of a categorizable word list. Psychon Sci 21, 331–332 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335808
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