Identical subject-generated and experimenter-supplied mediators in paired-associate learning.

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Conducted 2 experiments in which a total of 120 college students were tested with materials and instructions that made the generated verbal mediators highly predictable (in Exp II, 100% predictable). This made it possible not only to supply mediators identical to the generated ones but also to maximize the probability that the supplied mediators would be the same as those which the supplied Ss would have generated for themselves. Results indicate that mediator origin per se had no significant effect on recall. It is suggested that in earlier studies a bias was operating against the supplied condition because the supplied mediators were, in a substantial proportion of instances, different from those which the supplied Ss would have generated for themselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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