Table 4.
Proportion of participants reporting each time estimation strategy in Experiment 2. Totals for the silence condition are collapsed across clock-condition.
| Song Conditions | Silence Condition | ||||
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| Song Strategies | High Consequence N=64 |
Low Consequence N=64 |
No-clock N=64 |
Total N=192 |
Total N=96 |
| Use song info only | 52% | 23% | 91% | 55% | - |
| Use songs & simultaneous counting | 2% | 6% | 3% | 4% | - |
| Use songs for initial clock checks, then counted when close to 10 minutes | 15% | 9% | - | 8% | - |
| Use songs for initial checks and then “feeling” of elapsed time when close to 10 minutes | 12% | 27% | - | 13% | - |
| Sang song of known duration in head | - | - | - | - | 1% |
| Total | 81% | 66% | 94% | 80% | 1% |
| Non-song Strategies | |||||
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| Use “feeling” of elapsed time | 11% | 23% | 5% | 13% | 50% |
| Counted seconds or stimuli | 5% | - | 2% | 2% | 17% |
| Use “feeling” for initial clock checks, then count when close to 10 minutes | 3% | 11% | - | 5% | 25% |
| Compared to feeling of a 10 minute everyday task | - | - | - | - | 7% |
| Total | 19% | 34% | 6% | 20% | 99% |