Hence, these scores were associated with the participants' success in carrying out the task deliberately attended to, but not their success in the spontaneous avoidance of negative sentences.
Measurement instruments, assessment tasks, are deliberately designed and developed to measure ability and to classify performance relative to another performance.
Note that the use of heterogeneous strategies would not necessarily result in observable differences in accuracy, given that the 3 In-scanner tasks were deliberately constructed to yield equal performance across the age range.
Others took him to task for deliberately courting danger, heedless of the cost to taxpayers of his various rescues.
After completing their task, learners deliberately reflect on their experience to abstract the lessons learned and to consider how they performed in their self-directed learning (Hmelo et al., 2000).
For example, many years ago I participated in an experiment designed by Robert Anton Wilson where we were tasked to deliberately read things as close to 180° from our normal way of thinking as possible, a practice I continue somewhat informally to this day.
Second, our experimental task was deliberately designed to minimize attention to higher-order facial characteristics (e.g., identity, gender, etc).
In order to minimize the likelihood that differences in activation patterns between conditions could be due to differences in task difficulty, we deliberately made the discrimination tasks easy to perform; thus, the perceptual probe was offset by 20 degrees, ensuring that performance was ubiquitously high.
Furthermore, it proved relatively straightforward to test humans on both delayed matching-to-sample and delayed nonmatching-to-sample tasks that were deliberately modelled on DNMS tests given to monkeys.
However, as the task paradigm was deliberately designed to minimize behavioral group difference, no significant group differences in task performance were observed.
