Table 1. Strategy for Biasing Responses Toward ‘old' or ‘new' Judgments.
Bias level | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Cup height | Short | Short | Regular | Regular | Tall |
Old reward | 1/2 | 1/4 | 1/4 | 1/4 | 1/4 |
New reward | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
The numbers in the bottom two rows represent the cereal ring(s) awarded for correct ‘old' or ‘new' judgments. Each bias level has a distinct combination of cup height and food reward ratio, resulting in a distinct false alarm and hit rate (ie, one of five data points used to generate the ROC curves). Liberal criteria such as bias level 1 (digging is more difficult, thus biasing toward ‘old' judgments) result in high false alarm and high hit rates, whereas conservative criteria, such as bias level 5 (digging is easier, thus biasing towards ‘new' judgments) result in low false alarm and hit rates.