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The Bransford-Franks (1971) integration hypothesis and an alternative guessing strategy hypothesis were tested one against the other by varying the constraint under which the “atoms” comprising stimulus items could be arranged. Results showed that as constraint decreased, the slopes of the best-fitting linear curves for item “complexity” (i.e., number of atoms in an item) reversed direction, a finding which could only have been predicted by the guessing strategy hypothesis.
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Pollack, L.M., Katz, S. Guessing strategy constraints in the Bransford-Franks paradigm. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 9, 224–226 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336982
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