Ss were instructed to generate random numbers while simultaneously listening to passages of varying degrees of approximation to English, under Recall and No-recall conditions. Randomness of choices was considered an index of attentional capacity and appeared to be a stable individual difference characteristic with a fair degree of generality across stimulus and instructional conditions.
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