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In agreement with previous results, paired-associate (PA) performance was not significantly facilitated on pairs identical to those of a previous verbal-discrimination (VD) list, whereas poorer performance resulted if the VD and PA items were paired differently, as compared with PA items excluded from the VD list. These transfer effects were unaffected by intralist similarity or percentage occurrence of response members (ORM), but were largely eliminated under the recall method of PA learning. Contrary to previous findings, overall recall-method PA performance was only insignificantly superior to that under the standard anticipation method. Moreover, a contrasting distinct superiority of the anticipation method was found under conditions of 50% ORM, especially for medium intralist similarity.

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