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The major purpose of this investigation was to test the association-activation hypothesis in paired-associate learning through the administration of separate stimulus and stimulus-response recognition tests following moderate acquisition of a paired-associate list. Of incerest also were stimulus configuration and meaningfulness of number of stimuli. Results were clearly nonsupportive of the activation hypothesis since a significantly above-chance proportion of stimulus-response pairs was correctly recognized directly after nonrecognition of the respective stimulus-only members of the pairs occurred. Further, stimulus configuration was not statistically reliable, thereby offering presumptive evidence that visual coding of information is ineffective in a long-term memory task. Stimuli high in meaningfulness were more effective than those low in meaningfulness both during list-acquisition and in the stimulus-recognition test phase.

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