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A series of highly salient, complex visual stimuli were presented in an uninterrupted sequence. Afterward, subjects judged which member of a pair of stimuli occurred earlier and estimated temporal location in the inspection series for each. It was found that (a) presentation time for critical items did not affect accuracy of judgments, (b) presentation time for filler items had no differential effect on accuracy, (c) increased number of items produced poorer performance, (d) the framework of a brief auditory story with no intentional connection to the pictures enhanced performance, and (e) judgments were better on an immediate than on a 24-hr delayed test, particularly for pictures near the end of the original series. These findings suggest that a verbal story line may provide an effective framework for recalling the temporal order of events that occur concurrently.

The test-retest reliability of free association norms J 146 Ss gave free associations to 158 stimulus words on two occasions separated by 10 weeks. The probability of responding with an identical associate (LA) after 10 weeks was .32. A correlation of .84 was found between number of Primary (P) responses and number of lAs for the 146 Ss. A high positive correlation was found between dominance of the Primary (DP) and number of lAs for the 158 words, while a negative correlation was found between frequency in the language of the stimulus word (LF) and number of lAs. The coefficient of multiple correlation yielded R1.23= .92, indicating that a high degree of reliability can be predicted for words with low LF and high DP.

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One hundred and eight Ss gave verbal associates to 68