This paper is based on a dissertation submitted to the Graduate College of the State University of Iowa in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The writer is indebted to Dr. Charles C. Spiker for his generous guidance.* Now atGeorge Peabody College for Teachers. 3 The terms "relevant-S" and "irrelevant" are McAllister's (8). The latter term refers to pretraining in which the stimuli are different from those occurring in the transfer task.
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