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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 Source - item Contingency in Experiment 2.

Item Expectancy

Expected Doctor Expected Lawyer Equal Expectancy



Source “D” “L” “N” “D” “L” “N” “D” “L” “N”
Schema-Consistent Contingency
Doctor 169 20 99 28 31 37 116 25 51
Lawyer 30 40 26 18 170 100 40 110 42
New 104 30 250 24 89 271 35 30 319
Zero Contingency
Doctor 101 41 50 104 30 58 145 21 26
Lawyer 23 111 58 32 111 49 27 132 33
New 64 63 257 51 69 264 44 36 304
Schema-Inconsistent Contingency
Doctor 34 39 23 159 35 94 132 28 32
Lawyer 34 178 76 36 32 28 34 116 42
New 37 115 232 112 25 247 46 36 302