Fig. 4
From: Framing cognitive offloading in terms of gains or losses: achieving a more optimal use of reminders
Metacognitive Confidence Judgment. Note The metacognitive confidence rating provided us with our metacognitive confidence measure: After participants finished a series of practice trials, they rated their confidence in their ability to accurately remember the delayed intention of dragging the special circles to the respective edges. Participants performed these ratings once (prior to the start of the experiment) separately for the internal and external strategies. For the confidence rating after the forced-external trials, participants received the alternate instruction 'Now that you have practiced doing the task using reminders, we would like you to tell us how accurately you can perform the task when you use this strategy’