In a study of the effects of percentage of mediation-pairs and control pairs in a 3-list chaining paradigm, 5 groups of Ss learned lists in which 0, 20, 40, 60, and 80% of the pairs were chaining pairs, and the remainder were “warm-up” control-pairs. The results did not support a hypothesized direct relationship between mediation-effect and percentage of mediation-pairs. Rather, the 20 and 80% groups showed the greatest mediation-effect, the 60% group showed little mediation-effect, and the 40% group showed no mediation-effect. Results were interpreted in terms of intralist interference resulting from differences in the discriminability of mediation and control conditions.
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