Table 3.
Number of successful subjects and percentages of trials in which subjects succeeded in waiting, given per delay condition
| Task | Delay condition |
Overall performance | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 s | 5 s | 10 s | 20 s | 40 s | 60 s | 80 s | 160 s | 320 s | 640 s | ||
| 1 exchange | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 2 | nt | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Successful subjects |
| 1A quality (%) | 57.62 | 29.63 | 16.67 | 18.10 | 23.81 | nt | 28.57 | 14.29 | 9.52 | 4.76 | 40.07 |
| 1B quantity (%) | 18.74 | 8.61 | 1.37 | 1.11 | 0.00 | nt | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.49 |
| 2 accumulation | 12 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Successful subjects | |
| 2A quality (%) | 57.29 | 39.77 | 65.00 | 50.00 | 25.00 | 37.50 | 50.00 | 37.50 | 50.00 | 48.44 | |
| 2B quantity (%) | 9.11 | 3.68 | 1.25 | 4.69 | 5.21 | 1.56 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.13 | 4.91 | |
nt = not tested; the 60 s delay condition was tested only in the accumulation task. The conditions reported are those where one subject waited at least once.