Creating a drop-down menu with options for subjects' responses?

[Yuliya Yoncheva]

Greetings E-prime experts,

I am programming an experiment in E-prime 2.0 Professional, in which the 
optimal way to collect participants' responses would be to have them select 
1 out of 10 options from a drop-down menu.

(e.g., a subject needs to choose between "$10 in a week" or "$1 or $2 or $3 
... immediately." It is argued that offering selection from a drop-down 
menu promotes more careful consideration of each option.) 

The closest example I found in the E-prime Samples database on pstnet.com<http://www.pstnet.com/support/samples.asp> was 
the Visual Analog scale, which would enable on-screen presentation of all 
options simultaneously (e.g., as 10 individual boxes), and allow the 
subject to click on the box of their choice. However, my participants have 
clinical attention deficits, therefore presenting all options at once would 
be too distracting and is thus not a viable idea.

Is there a way to create a drop-down box? If not, what work-around 
solutions come to mind? 

One hypothetical idea I have is to create an in-line script pausing E-prime 
and allowing a switch to MS Excel (where I can create a drop down menu in a 
file) before returning to E-prime. The duration of such subject-paced pause 
would be a proxy (albeit very rough) for response latency.

I don't know whether it is even feasible. Does anyone have experience with 
such an approach? Alternatively, could anyone recommend a response 
collection software that would be better suited for building drop-down 
menus?
 
Any feedback or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you kindly,
Yuliya Yoncheva

PS: So far the experiments I have programmed have focused on millisecond 
temporal precision on the presentation side (which I know is E-prime's 
strength), and not flexibility on the response collection interface (which 
I gather is not an emphasis in this particular software).


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