Respondents were instructed that for a health state to be considered unchangeable, it had to persist for ten years and be followed by dead.
Subjects were instructed that for an item to be classified as old, it need not be presented in the same modality as it was when first encountered.
Participants were instructed that for each day, the total number of hours across their four activity estimates should equal 24 hours.
Participants were instructed that the main topic of interest for the group was the experience of counseling, decision-making, and treatment related to radioactive iodine but that participants could discuss any component of the disease trajectory if they wished.
Participants were asked not to consume any other SSB during the intervention period and were instructed that the study SSB were only for their individual consumption.
Subjects were instructed that they would receive monetary reward for choosing the correct stimulus, but, as in Wimmer and Shohamy (2012), were given no instructions about how to identify the correct stimulus (except to choose the one they thought was more lucky).
Thus for example, participants were instructed that when the border was blue they must attend to the faces and respond when the face is male and to withhold responding when the face is female.
For alcohol, participants were instructed that "One drink is equivalent to a 12-ounce beer, a 5 ounce glass of wine, or a drink with one shot of liquor".
(NGT, 2010) Another NGT discussion participant added: "For instance we are instructed that the issue of traditional medicines should be included in the plans, but in our district the issue of traditional medicines does not constitute a major problem" (NGT 2010) A total of 15 priority setting criteria were identified from the NGT discussion (Table 3).
Participants were instructed that they were going to be shown some images and that they should study the images and try to remember them for a later test.
