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they listed things that cannot be owned by anybody, 6%
things that they used to own, 3% things that they do not
want to own, and one subject listed things that are common
property. Variety in recall strategies was evident within
some subjects’ recall listings as well as across subjects’
listings. For example, one women who reported using three
recall strategies, listed the following exemplars of things
not owned: sun, wind, cottage, house, fur coat, children,
sea, piano, table saw, canoe.
Recall Exemplars
The tendency of the two recall listings to have some
degree of common selection criteria is evident in the actual
recall listings, and this probably confounds any
interpretations of the recall listings themselves. For
example, vehicles, dwellings, and boats are the most
prominent types of items in both Tables 2 and 3, in terms of
both frequency of listing and priority in the recall
sequence. This would be perplexing, since freuuent
exemplars should be typical of the recall categories (Rosch,
1973). However, these are all large items, and are
presumably prime examples of candidates for ownership. It
may be more useful to discuss the differences in the
Tistings of exemplars. At least 20 subjects listed
"clothing", "books", "watch", ‘and "jewellery" as exemplars
of owned things, but these were not common as exemplars of