The study examined the effect of meaningfulness and intralist similarity on serial anticipation learning by 24 volunteers who were given trigram lists to be learned by oral serial anticipation. A sign test performed on total scores for serial anticipation was significant. It was concluded that the lower the intralist similarity and the higher the meaningfulness, the faster the learning.
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