Abstract

The frequency theory of verbal discrimination (VD) learning predicts that intrapair associative relationships should have a detrimental effect on the learning of a VD list. Although prior tests have been mixed in outcome, the present study fails to support the prediction with respect to three types of associative relation: synonymic associates, antonymic associates, and free associates of neither semantic class.

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