Table 4. Number of children with center box responses excluded (re-coded).
| Condition | Agent tries to open | Response directed at box |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A: box now empty | B: box with toy | C: box always empty | Total n | ||
| Old-FB | Box now empty | ![]() |
6 | 0 | 8 |
| Old-TB | 8 | 0 | 14 | ||
| New-FB | Box always empty | 1 | 9 | ![]() |
12 |
| New-TB | 2 | 2 | 8 | ||
N.B.: Numbers circled are children’s responses directed at the box the agent tries to open.
One child was re-coded from box A to box B in the old-FB and one child from box C to B in the new-FB condition.

