Words and objects of high and low familiarity were compared as stimulus and response in a paired-associate experiment to show that word as stimulus in word-object pairs would produce greater learning than object as stimulus in object-word pairs. Words were CVC trigrams and objects were triglyphs made up of geometric shapes in a triplet construction comparable to the production of trigrams.
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