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Session 1
Thank you for your participation
to this experiment.
If you are ready, press any key to start.
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Preliminary Question 1
Which task is the one you most would like to do
among the below six tasks? Please choose one (pl
ease press the number).

• Video game
• Solitaire
• Proofreading
• Black Jack
• Transcribing Audiotapes
• Alphabetizing

Art. Do you think it would be better to use also
Images of individual tasks?
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Preliminary Question 2
Here are same tasks. Which task is the one you mo
st would not like to do? Please choose one
(please press the number).

• Video game
• Solitaire
• Proofreading
• Black Jack
• Transcribing Audiotapes
• Alphabetizing

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• From now, we will evaluate your performance
  throughout the experimental session.
  
• You will be given a subtraction task.
• If you do well the subtraction task, then you
  will get to do the task you chose earlier as you
  most would like to perform, instead of the task
  you chose as you most would not like to perform.

If you are ready, press any key to start.
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Subtraction Task

• Please subtract 7 from 1000 and continually
  subtract 7 from the answer. With each
  subtraction, write your answers in the blank
  paper on the desk until you hear a sound about
  two minutes later.
• Please write the answers as many as you can.
• Example
• 1000 7 993
• 993 7 986
• 986 7 979
• .
• You have to write only answers.

If you are ready, press any key to start.
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The first session is over. Please call the
experimenter to get start the Second session.