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Trabasso and Sperry (1985) found that, when subjects rated the importance of events in stories, the judged importance of an action was directly related to
 
  a. its position in the paragraph.
  b. the number of explicit references to it in the passage.
  c. the importance of the character in the story who committed the action.
  d. the number of causal connections associated with the action.

Question 2

Myers measured the effect of causal relations on the fan effect. He found that subjects were fastest in deciding whether test sentences were true or false when they learned
 
  a. 3 sentences.
  b. 6 high-integration sentences.
  c. 6 low-integration sentences.
  d. there were no differences among these three conditions.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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