Stories written to cues presented either as pictures or sentence leads briefly describing the pictures were compared. Stories written to pictures elicited higher n Achievement scores and a greater number of AI stories than stories written to sentence leads. It was further found that cues which weakly elicit n Achievement stories evoked substantially lower n Achievement scores and fewer AI stories when presented as a sentence lead.
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