Tasks are played for five rounds each
Part 1 consists of three tasks: A, B, and C. You will complete five rounds of each task. First you will complete five rounds of Task A, then five rounds of Task B, then five rounds of Task C. Every round is independent, but the task will be the same in each of the five rounds.
Tasks A, B, and C are alike; each involve making multiple decisions, and the types of decisions you need to make are similar. The difference between the tasks is how many decisions you have to make per round; the length of the task will vary across tasks A, B, and C: Task A consists of two decision turns. Task B consists of five decision turns. Task C consists of ten decision turns.
Since you will complete five rounds per task, in total you will make 10 decisions in part A, 25 decisions in part B, and 50 decisions in part C.
Rounds
To make your decisions in Part 1 tasks, you will use a 4x4 grid of squares. At the start of each new round, the computer will create a new grid by randomly selecting a point value for each square. Each square on the grid corresponds to one value from the set of possible values, which range from 0 points to 100 points. Each value from 0 to 100 points is equally likely to be chosen by the computer, and the values of the squares are independent of each other. These point values will stay fixed for the entire round. Below you can see what this looks like.
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On your first decision turn of each round, the computer will only display the point value of one square (the top left square). Below you can see what this looks like. To learn the point value of any other square, you must click on it (choose its point value for one of your decision turns). Once a (previously blank) square has been chosen at least once, its point value will be displayed on the square for the rest of the round. This means that what you learn in an earlier decision turn can be useful to you in later decision turns within the same round. In contrast, what you learn in a given round will not be useful to you in future rounds, because the computer randomly generates a new grid at the start of each round.
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Every time you click on a square (choose a point value), you use one decision turn. Once you click on any square, the point value of that square will be added to your payoff for that round. The round ends once you have completed all of your decision turns. For example, Task B has five decision turns, so completing a round of Task B consists of making five choices (clicking five squares) from the grid. You are allowed to choose any square on the grid each decision turn, and you can click on the same square more than once. The only condition is that you can only choose one square per decision turn.
In summary:
If you click on a square whose point value is displayed on the square, you will use one decision turn and that certain point value will be added to your payoff for that round.
If you click on a square whose point value is hidden, you will use one decision turn, you will learn that square's point value, and that value will be added to your payoff for that round.
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