Table 5.
Means (and standard deviations) as a function of a pending goal related to interesting, task-irrelevant information and task difficulty (Experiment 2).
Task difficulty | Pending goal | |||
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Without | With | |||
Easy | Difficult | Easy | Difficult | |
Problem-solving performance in % correct | 77.78 (11.03) | 61.66 (19.64) | 60.78 (21.87) | 59.91 (20.67) |
Time on task-relevant information in seconds | 1469.12 (633.70) | 1226.06 (379.85) | 950.24 (429.49) | 1211.76 (916.13) |
Time on task-irrelevant information in seconds | 2.18 (4.59) | 7.06 (14.35) | 105.29 (228.76) | 34.47 (71.80) |