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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2011 Mar 23;82(3):744–750. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01584.x

Table 1.

The number of trials in which children switched or did not switch after an initially incorrect choice, and the number of trials in which switching led to a correct prediction.

Imagine Wait Control

Initially correct 64 30 51

Initially incorrect 128 162 141
 No switch 64 124 111
 Switch 64 38 30
  Switch to incorrect 7 12 5
  Switch to correct 57 26 25

Total correct 121 56 76

Note: Each instruction group received a total of 192 test trials (16 participants, 12 trials per participant).