In Rew Neut trials, feedback followed the same pattern as in the Baseline Rew block.
Afterwards, five consecutive learning trials were performed using the same words; after the second, third, and fourth trials, feedback (number of words correctly recalled) and verbal reinforcement were provided ("good!; you did very well!"); in the fifth trial, a cognitive strategy (verbally described: "perhaps you can group the words") was suggested.
Design: Randomized clinical trial (feedback vs. control) with a 2-month post-incarceration follow-up.
Gap metric based analysis is applied to ILC by reformulating the finite horizon trial-to-trial feedforward dynamics into an equivalent along-the-trial feedback system, as well as deriving relationships to link their respective gap metric values.
No trial-by-trial feedback was given.
First, we examined the effect of trial-by-trial feedback on men's sexual-interest judgments (Treat et al., in press).
Future research profitably might evaluate whether explicit instruction potentiates the effect of trial-by-trial feedback on individual judgments, as in prior work (Treat et al., in press).
Surprisingly, however, explicit instruction produced much weaker effects than trial-by-trial feedback on both affect utilization (ds = 0.37, 1.72) and attractiveness utilization (ds = −0.33, −0.65; Treat et al., in press, under review).
Fortunately, trial-by-trial feedback strongly enhanced affective utilization and moderately reduced attractiveness utilization when judging the sexual interest of decontextualized women, even among higher-risk men who endorsed rape-supportive attitudes 1 SD above the mean (Treat et al., in press).
This suggests the potential utility of implementing training strategies, such as trial-by-trial feedback and explicit instruction (Treat et al., in press, under review), with women presented in scenes that vary in sexual relevance rather than in decontextualized full-body photographs.
The creative process of refining an idea through trial, feedback, analysis, and retrial is akin to the R&D process and trade secrets of companies.
