delay discounting

[Michiel Sovijarvi-Spape]

Hi,

More information would be appreciated. As per
http://149.142.158.188/phenowiki/wiki/index.php/Delay_Discounting_Task_(DDT)
, it seems to be a sort of delay of gratification task in which you ask
people whether they want 40 pound now, or 100 pounds in a week - correct?
Doesn't sound to me like the type of thing you'd normally use e-prime for,
but anyway... what seems to be the problem? Are you also concerned about:
"Has anyone programmed into a slide a box where monetary earnings are
accumulated and if so, how?"

 

Again, I'd really not use E-Prime for slides and anything pretty really - a
slider is a pretty normal object, just drag and drop in java, .net, and so
on, but makes little sense in E-Prime, where solid timing characteristics
are the main focus. IF you must, and I understand some students do, use
E-Prime (possibly for no other reason than that people have heard it's good
practice for psychologists to do so), you could present them with two random
choices [now] and [later] on a single textdisplay which says:

"Press 1 if you would prefer [now] now or 2 if you would prefer [later]
later?" and then add these as attributes to a list. "accumulated monetary
earnings" can then be done as the sums of choices by adding an inline:

if TextDisplay1.RESP = 1 then sumnow = sumnow + c.GetAttrib("now")

if TextDisplay1.RESP = 2 then sumlater = sumlater = c.GetAttrib("later")

c.SetAttrib "sumnow" = sumnow

c.SetAttrib "sumlater" = sumlater

 

(obviously, sumnow and sumlater are declared in the user script)

Good luck. 

 

Best,

Mich

 

From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Alevelwetsky
Sent: 11 July 2012 21:36
To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: delay discounting

 

Hi Jessica,

I'm also programming a delay discounting task in E-Prime. Any advice you can
give me is appreciated.

Thanks!

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:42:42 AM UTC-5, Jessica wrote:

Thank you!! 

On Feb 17, 5:46 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote: 
> In the broadest terms, this will require inline code, and global 
> variables.  See Chapter 4 of the User's Guide that came with 
> E-Prime.  Also, try a search of "delay discounting E-Prime" on the 
> web, or in the appropriate message boards (e.g., here, or the PST 
> Forum).  And don't forget PST Web Support
athttp://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp. 
> 
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder 
> 
> 
> 
> >I am trying to program a delay discounting task in the newest version 
> >of e-prime and have been running against a particular difficulty that 
> >I was wondering if others might have some insights into. 
> >  Has anyone programmed into a slide a box where monetary earnings are 
> >accumulated and if so, how? I am thinking that this might require in- 
> >line script but was unsure if there was a different way? 
> 
> >Thanks in advance and any help would be greatly appreciated!- Hide quoted
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> 
> - Show quoted text -

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