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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2008 Sep;44(5):1466–1477. doi: 10.1037/a0013046

Table 1.

Nonsymbolic Addition Problems of Experiment 1 and Susceptibility to Alternative Strategies.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
X Y X+Y Z Ratio Correct choice (larger) Choose X+Y strategy Choose Z strategy Y vs. Z strategy X vs. Z strategy Extreme X-value strategy Extreme Z-value strategy Spatio-temp. strategy
18 10 28 16 4:7 X+Y 1 −1 −1 0 1 1 1
26 14 40 24 4:7 X+Y 1 −1 −1 0 0 1 0
22 6 28 49 4:7 Z −1 1 1 1 0 0 1
19 5 24 42 4:7 Z −1 1 1 1 1 0 1
27 6 33 56 4:7 Z −1 1 1 1 0 1 0
35 7 42 24 4:7 X+Y 1 −1 −1 1 1 1 0
16 8 24 36 4:6 Z −1 1 1 1 1 0 1
22 6 28 42 4:6 Z −1 1 1 1 0 0 1
28 8 36 54 4:6 Z −1 1 1 1 0 1 0
30 18 48 32 4:6 X+Y 1 −1 −1 0 0 0 0
26 16 42 28 4:6 X+Y 1 −1 −1 0 0 1 0
35 19 54 36 4:6 X+Y 1 −1 −1 0 1 0 0
18 10 28 35 4:5 Z −1 1 1 1 1 0 1
24 8 32 40 4:5 Z −1 1 1 1 0 0 1
32 8 40 32 4:5 X+Y 1 −1 −1 0 1 0 0
40 10 50 40 4:5 X+Y 1 −1 −1 0 1 0 0
32 12 44 55 4:5 Z −1 1 1 1 1 1 0
20 10 30 24 4:5 X+Y 1 −1 −1 0 0 1 1