incorrect response logging?

[Leisha Wharfield]

Are you using a single object to record responses to different icons, 
where the response always has the same name--Slide1.RESP, for example? 
So that response exists and is carried over & recorded even for icons 
that are not shown?

If there's an inline object handling your response-dependent jumps 
anyway, why not clear Slide1.RESP after the value is recorded in the 
appropriate trial and before you jump to the next trial?

Leisha Wharfield
Decision Research
Eugene, Oregon, USA

BORODKIN KATY wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> I built an experiment in which the participant responds to a picture. 
> Depending on his/hers response, the trial continues further (to 
> different paths). For example, if the response is correct, then the 
> next picture is presented. If the response is incorrect, the 
> participant is presented with cues. If the participant doesn't know 
> how to respond, he is presented with a few questions. After each 
> question, the trial continues to different paths, again, depending on 
> response. All these response-dependent "jumps" within a trial are 
> performed using InLine and Label icons. All works well.
>  
> But the output is certainly unsatisfactory- responses (RESP) are 
> somehow recorded even when a specific icon was skipped. For example, 
> if the participant answers correctly to the first question following a 
> "don't know" response, the trial stops and the next picture is 
> presented. I would expect that no responses are logged for all the 
> following steps of this trial. Instead, the program presents responses 
> for all these skipped steps. The response recorded is the response 
> that actually occurred on the last trial when the particular step 
> wasn't missed. I have no idea how to deal with it. Be happy to hear 
> any suggestions.
>  
> Thanks a lot,
> Katy Borodkin
> Psychology Department
> Bar Ilan University
> Israel

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