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The research reported in this paper was supported by Grant BNS87-10305 from the National Science Foundation to Cheng. The preparation of this manuscript was supported by the above NSF grant, a National Institute of Mental Health Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship to Novick, and the dean's office of Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. We are grateful to Rochel Gelman, Denis Hilton, Keith Holyoak, Michael Waldmann and three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on an earlier draft. This paper was presented in part at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, November 1988. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Patricia Cheng.