Show random attribute from list

[ben robinson]

you need one top-level list object, List1, with 2 rows and two columns.

first, the columns:
column 1 = FirstWord
column 2 = SecondWord
under FirstWord you'll want to write [Word1]
under SecondWord write [Word2]

now the rows:
both rows will call run the same procedure, ShowWordsProc.
row 1's nested lists = MainWordList and WordListA
row 2's nested lists = MainWordList and WordListB

in MainWordList you'll need to add a column called Word1
in both WordListA and WordListB you'll need to add a column called Word2

add all you main words to the column, Word1
and add all your list2 and list3 words to the column Word2 in WordListA and
WordListB, respectively.

set all the lists to select at random.

this should do it.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Spencer S <undressmerobot at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Ben, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately (and I did not make this
> clear originally), I am looking to pair MAIN with ONLY either WORD2 or
> WORD3. That is, each MAIN word is shown once, with either WORD2 or
> WORD3, such that 50% of the trials have the MAIN word shown with
> WORD2, and 50% have it with WORD3. For instance, if BORED and BEARD
> were selected, then BORED and BOARD would not be shown later.
>
> Sorry if I am not explaining this well.
>
> On Jul 10, 10:43 am, Ben Meyers <benjamin.d.mey... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are a couple different ways you could do this.
> >
> > The solution that I think is least complicated would be to make one
> > list randomly call between two procedures.  The only item in each of
> > those procedures would be a list with two additional attributes:
> > MAIN, WORD, where the WORD attribute contains the corresponding word
> > to each MAIN.  Then you have your presentation procedure and you're
> > done.
> >
> > On Jul 8, 4:11 pm, Spencer S <undressmero... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What I have is a list of homophones, like the following:
> >
> > > MAIN            WORD2           WORD3
> >
> > > bored           board           beard
> > > cede            seed            seen
> > > sell                    cell                    call
> > > cent                    sent            seat
> >
> > > I want to show pairs of words such that the MAIN word is always shown,
> > > and then either WORD2 or WORD3 is chosen to be shown at random. Half
> > > the time WORD2 would be shown, half the time WORD3 would be shown.
> >
> > > For example, using the above words, a sample set of trials would be:
> >
> > > StimA   StimB
> >
> > > bored   beard
> > > cede    seed
> > > sell            cell
> > > cent            seat
> >
> > > Or: MAIN/WORD3, MAIN/WORD2, MAIN/WORD2, MAIN/WORD3.
> >
>

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