Color photographs, previously rated either as very pleasant or as indifferent, were learned as responses to nonsense syllables. Ss used their own labels for photographs for responding. Next these syllables were learned as responses to two-digit numbers. Syllable-recall was tested either immediately or after 7 days. Pleasantly-paired syllables were learned faster than those indifferently paired. This difference was partly attributed to faster learning of the pleasant photos in Phase 1 but was partly due to some independent Phase 2 process. No difference was found in rate of forgetting for the differently treated syllables.
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