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The principle focus of this paper is on interpretation of interactions that are obtained when response probability is used as a dependent variable. It is argued that results obtained with probability [or any dependent variable) are only interesting insofar as they reflect something about a corresponding theoretical component. It follows that the functional mapping of response probability [which is measured) onto the state of a theoretical component (which is inferred) must be somehow specified if conclusions are to be meaningful. Depending on the nature of such a mapping, various types of results, particularly results involving interactions, may or may not be interpretable.
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This paper was supported by National Science Foundation Grants BG 39615 and BNS 75-10450 to G. Loftus and is based on a talk presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, 1975.
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Loftus, G.R. On interpretation of interactions. Memory & Cognition 6, 312–319 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197461
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