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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 1988 Jul;14(3):421–433. doi: 10.1037//0278-7393.14.3.421

Table 2.

Transcription Accuracy for Words in the Pretraining and Posttraining Sentence Tasks (Percentage Correct)

Condition Pretraining Posttraining Change (% points)
Harvard sentences
Control 49.2 38.0 −11.2
Novel words 44.7 34.7 −10.0
Repeated words 40.6 40.6 0
Novel sentences 45.3 62.3 17.0
Repeated sentences 44.4 58.4 14.0

Haskins sentences
Control 24.0 42.3 18.3
Novel words 19.0 41.7 22.7
Repeated words 21.3 41.7 20.4
Novel sentences 25.6 65.0 39.4
Repeated sentences 25.9 69.3 43.4