Wisconsin card sorting test

[David McFarlane]

liwenna,

>Heh David,
>
>I was considering doing the exact same thing ^.^  Yet... there doesn't
>seem to be any WSCT scripts available on the net (anymore?).
>
>So Maaike/Mieke, you're not really helped with that.

Indeed, I must apogize for rushing to judgment with my earlier 
response.  I am familiar with the library of E-Prime programs 
provided by STEP, ran a Google search, and saw that STEP came up as 
the top hit, so I simply assumed that the link went to the desired 
example program.  Only later did I notice that the link went to a 
.pdf - oh oh!  And when I followed that link I found that the .pdf 
simply mentioned the WCST as part of the plans for the future of 
STEP, and it seems that never happened.  (Come to think of it, in the 
2001 article in Beh Res Methods, Instr & Computers the authors 
envisioned a grand plan for E-Prime, which has not come about).  So 
my earlier response did not provide the desired help.

As far as I can tell no one has made an E-Prime WCST available on the 
Web.  It would be quite interesting to make one.  As I recall, in 
essence the task involves operantly rewarding the subject for 
correctly following an undisclosed rule, changing the rule whenever 
the subject achieves an overall success criterion, and seeing how 
well the subject can adapt to the changing rules.  This would require 
some interesting code in E-Prime, in particular scoring the success 
rate and then changing the "correct" rule on the fly, but it could be 
done.  Wish I had the liberty to do it myself.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>  I think you'll
>have to realise that e-prime is a program to build experimetns with,
>not just 'install test programs'.
>
>Your university/supervisor ought to have resources to get you started
>and then there is additional help available online (in this group
>among other places). To get started: get a course or ask someone in
>real life (supervisor?) for some basic instructions on e-prime, and/or
>get  Michiel Spape's 'E-primer' (download at:
>http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/lpzmmas/EPrimer2009Alpha.pdf
>). Once you got the 'basics' of e-prime the help function in the
>program is quite helpful. If you then get stuck on some specific
>problem you're more than welcome to post it here.
>
>We are all just 'users of e-prime' that like to help people out when
>they're stuck on something in e-prime... we generally do not conjure
>fully functional scripts out of thin air ;)
>
>So... start toying around with e-prime and build the basics of your
>task. When stuck on something specific, do come back here :)
>
>Best,
>
>liw
>
>
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:35 AM, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> > >http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wisconsin+card+sorting+task+e-prime
> >
> > > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
> >
> > >  I want to install a Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in E-prime, can someone
> > >> help me with this? Does someone have this task in E-prime, or 
> know where I
> > >> can find it?

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