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Mediated facilitation was found in the A-B, B-C, C-D, A-D chaining paradigm using methods that closely paralleled those of prior three-stage experiments that reliably produced inferred mediation effects. The A terms were paralogs, the B and C terms were highly associated nouns, and the D terms were CVCs. All four stages were executed in the laboratory. A mediated interference condition did not yield reliable interference effects.
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1. The authors wish to thank Dr. R. W. Schulz and Dr. G. Weaver for their helpful comments and criticism.
2. This research was supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH 15741-01.
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Williams, J.R., Levin, I.P. Mediated facilitation in a four-stage chaining paradigm. Psychon Sci 12, 281–282 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331310
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