This section consists of three tasks: A, B, and C. You will complete ten rounds of each task. Every round is independent, but the task will be the same in each of the ten rounds.
Each task involves 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:
Since you will complete ten rounds per task, in total you will make {{ participant.total_decisions_a }} decisions during Task A, {{ participant.total_decisions_b }} decisions during Task B, and {{ participant.total_decisions_c }} decisions during Task C.
To make your decisions in this section, 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 from 0 to 100 for each square. 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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| {{ player.value_12 }} | {{ player.value_13 }} | {{ player.value_14 }} | {{ player.value_15 }} |
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. 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.
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Every time you click on a square, 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 {{ participant.decision_turns_b }} decision turns. This means that completing a round of Task B consists of making {{ participant.decision_turns_b }} choices (clicking {{ participant.decision_turns_b }} squares) from the grid, and the payoff for a round of Task B is the sum of {{ participant.decision_turns_b }} point values, one from each decision turn. 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.
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.
At the end of the study, the computer will randomly choose three rounds from the 30 rounds of this section, one from each task, to count for payment. All rounds have the same probability of being chosen.
At the end of the study, the three selected rounds and the amount of points that you earned in those rounds will be shown on the screen. Those points will be added together to determined your total earnings from Section 1 of the study. 100 points are worth 1 dollar.