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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2011 Jan;64(1):1–17. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.09.001

Frequencies of “D” (“Doctor”), “L” (“Lawyer”), and “N” (“Neither”) Responses to Items that had been Presented by the Doctor, Items that had been Presented by the Lawyer, and New Items under Different Conditions of Expectancy and Attention in Experiment 1.

Item Expectancy

Expected Doctor Expected Lawyer Equal Expectancy



Source “D” “L” “N” “D” “L” “N” “D” “L” “N”
Full Attention
Doctor 167 60 61 148 60 80 198 45 45
Lawyer 52 179 57 49 158 81 41 203 44
New 16 10 166 8 21 163 1 2 189
Divided Attention
Doctor 141 55 92 61 127 100 110 68 110
Lawyer 120 72 96 50 124 114 85 94 109
New 70 14 108 24 67 101 33 18 141