The present experiment was concerned, in part, with assessing the generality of findings obtained by Simon and Wood (1964) concerning the relative facilitation and inhibitory effects of prior PA stimulus familiarization on subsequent PA learning. Ss were 52 6th and 7th grade children. Results essentially supported those previously obtained with college students. The large attrition rate of Ss failing to reach familiarization list criterion suggests the fairly selected nature of the population of children to which these results can be generalized.
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