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Three experiments with 134 undergraduates and 80 recent high school graduates investigated processing of covariation between verbally described psychological characteristics and appearance of a set of stimulus persons. Based on S. Glucksberg and M. McCloskey's (see record 1982-07068-001) 2-stage question-answering model, it was hypothesized that if the information related to the manipulated covariation was processed and registered, it would result in an increase of processing time for questions that might be considered relevant to the covariation. Results indicate that although Ss were unable to articulate the manipulated covariation in any of the experiments, the pattern of response latencies obtained conformed exactly to the predictions. In 2 of these experiments, effects of the stimulus material in Ss' subsequent judgments were found, consistent with the model. Ss behaved as if they had "learned" the rule implied by the covariation and followed it in their subsequent judgments. (30 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
