Finally, participants were required to pass a quiz, thus demonstrating that they had understood the instructions.
All participants gave a rating of 10 (totally identical) for identical number pairs, indicating that they had understood the instructions.
To be sure the participants had understood the instructions of how to practice the tests they took up each test position once, before the assessment of each test.
When subjects felt that they had understood the instructions and had a brief practice session, they were asked to press the central button on the response box and the testing session began.
The nurse will take the opportunity during this initial contact to ensure that the patients have understood the instructions from the physician regarding how and when to take their pirfenidone dose, and how to up-titrate during the first few weeks.
There would have been no reason to ask the question if they had understood the instruction to authorize a life sentence even though they found that an aggravator had been proved.
For reread instruction, participants might have understood the instruction well and there was no need to confirm it.
On other trials, they read Abstract or Two Syllables and pressed a button to report when they had understood the instruction.
One of the male participants (who was allocated to the analytical condition) was identified as a statistical outlier on the pre-manipulation memory specificity score and was excluded from further analysis as he retrieved only one specific memory and it was unclear whether he had understood the task instructions.
See Cage, supra, 498 U.S., at ----, 111 S.Ct., at 329 ("In construing the instruction, we consider how reasonable jurors could have understood the charge as a whole"); Yates, supra, 500 U.S., at ----, 111 S.Ct., at 1892 ("We think a reasonable juror would have understood the [instruction] to mean...".).
Mr. Reaños later learned that the transport company had trained Mr. Ruiz to use the medical equipment but Mr. Ruiz had not understood the instructions.
