To examine the relation between rate of presentation and information dumping effect, an experiment was performed with a list of 17 living things and 17 non-living things to be recalled. 20 college students were instructed to pay particular attention to the living-thing items, while the remaining 20 were asked to pay attention to all the items in the list. The information dumping effect (Kubicek & Erdelyi, 1974) was obtained and the effect occurred more strikingly for the 0.3-sec. rate of presentation than for the 0.6-sec. rate.
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