The previously obtained results in verbal conditioning with a new sentence construction task were shown in this study to be independent of sex of both S and E. It was shown that the conditioning of names beginning with L and M was possible, although there was a significant initial preference for M names. These results further demonstrated that conditioning on this task was restricted exclusively to the aware Ss.
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