Inter-Trial
Interval
The inter-trial interval comes after the consequences, whether correct or incorrect. As the name suggests, it is an interval that comes between trials and signifies the ending of that trial. It is not written out into the discrete trial script as it is something that will always happen and does not need to be defined unless there is a specific time interval that needs to be followed for a certain programme. Malott and Trojan-Suarez (2006) suggest the inter-trial interval is as short as possible, just a few seconds at most.