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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 9.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Psychol. 1985 Jul;17(3):324–363. doi: 10.1016/0010-0285(85)90012-X

TABLE 1.

Subjects’ Mean Percentage Correct, Corrected Confidence, and A′ in Experiments 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6

Experiment Manipulation Percentage correct Corrected confidence A
1 After comprehending one vs several picture stories 66 2.942 .752
57 2.694 .634
2 After comprehending half vs an entire picture story 74 3.168 .835
62 2.852 .705
4 Before a constituent boundary vs after a constituent boundary 79 3.305 .872
70 3.081 .795
5 After comprehending a normal vs a scrambled picture story 68 3.012 .782
62 2.841 .700
6 After comprehending a normal vs a scrambled written story 70 3.037 .787
62 2.859 .700