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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Gen. 2017 Nov 20;147(3):305–327. doi: 10.1037/xge0000381

Table 1.

Experimental materials and procedures for the Deese/Roediger/McDermott illusion

Old list words (O) New-but-similar words (NS) New-different words (ND)
table, couch, desk, sofa, … chair (strong), seat (weak) city, music
rest, awake, tired, dream, … sleep (strong), yawn (weak) cold, soft
mad, fear. hate, temper, … anger (strong), mean (weak) spider, thief

Note. Subjects study word lists composed of 12–15 related items, such as those in the left hand column, and they respond to a recognition test on which three types of test probes are presented: old (O) list words, new-but-similar (NS) words, and new-different (ND) words. For each test probe, the subjects’ task is to decide whether it is O.