Normal children learned either “easy” or “hard” paired-associates (PA) with or without partially relevant colored backgrounds. The partially redundant conditons (trigram and partially relevant color-cue) produced far more confusion errors at either level of trigram difficulty. Normal children apparently utilized the colors for response evocation even though such a strategy could not lead to total-list learning.
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