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Kassin, Saul M.; Reber, Arthur S. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1979
Subjects with internal or external locus of control were instructed to remeber as much as possible from an array of letter strings generated from a finite state grammar. While both groups attended to the exemplars, internals extracted more invariance and hence learned more about the underlying grammatical structure. (Author/SJL)
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