Table 3.
Sample Training and Control Activities
| Examples of Training Activities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Activity | Core Details | Cues |
| Birthday Party | 1. Dog (sassy) barked | 1. Something happened at the beginning, when I was serving coffee, and we jumped |
| 2. “Happy Birthday” in 3 languages | 2. We sang something? Anything about how we sang? | |
| 3. Funny/crazy hats | 3. I brought something out to make the party more festive | |
| Book Club | 1. Hollow Book contained chocolates | 1. One book was quite unusual |
| 2. Blew horn during B-I-N-G-O game | 2. I pulled out something when you won | |
| 3. Stack of books fell over | 3. Something happened by accident, we stacked the books up and? | |
| Examples of Control Activities | ||
| Activity | Core Details | Cues |
| Valentine’s themed party | 1. Research assistant presented participant with Valentines balloons | 1. I brought you a present |
| 2. Research assistant wrote a card for participant | 2. There was something else I brought for you | |
| 3. Research assistant had participant tell him about how MC met his wife | 3. You told me a story | |
| Current Events | 1. Looked at a newspaper, fake article with the participant’s name and photo | 1. We looked through the Globe and Mail, was a little surprised when we turned the page |
| 2. Word search activity with participant’s name | 2. We did a word search puzzle about news vocabulary and threw an unexpected word in | |
| 3. Forest fire arts and craft activity, lighting a match for extra effect | 3. We did a craft making a forest fire, and for a little more effect I did something | |