Semantic coding and incidental sentence recall.

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Presented a series of 12 sentences containing strong normative semantic constraints to 60 undergraduates under 3 conditions: (a) incidental nonsemantic, where the task was to estimate the number of letters in each sentence; (b) incidental semantic, where the task was to rate each sentence on a scale of familiarity; and (c) intentional only, where ss only had to learn the sentences. A written recall test followed 1 presentation of the sentences in all groups. The incidental-nonsemantic group was inferior to the other groups in the tendency to recall sentences in an all-or-none fashion and in sentence and word recall as well. The incidental-semantic and intentional-only groups did not differ on any of the measures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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