They were familiarized with the task before proceeding with the actual experiment.
Copy-editing is now very often a freelance activity, and editors are no longer thoroughly familiarized with a particular style or practice.
The book is consequently not overburdened with detail and written with a view to familiarizing those in authority with the practical importance of mosquito reduction.
The children had been thoroughly familiarized with the story prior to their telling of it.
During the fieldwork phase, the researchers familiarized themselves with the communities through informal observation and recruited families for the observational phase.
In this phase children were familiarized with the notion that the bucket always contained an object.
Subjects were first familiarized with examples (different from those in the experiments) of the specific effects to be tested.
During this session, children also were familiarized with the experimental stimuli in a story, and then spontaneous use of the stimuli was evaluated by having the child re-tell the story.
