Wisconsin card sorting test

[liwenna]

That is some good research David!

On Aug 23, 11:24 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> Well, I toyed with the idea of making a simple WCST in E-Prime just
> to amuse myself.  But when I looked into it further, I got puzzled.
>
> The WCST started off with simple printed materials administered
> manually by a human examiner.  Clearly the WCST does not require
> millisecond precision.  So if we simply want to automate it, why use
> such an expensive, specialized, and heavyweight platform as
> E-Prime?  Wouldn't it make more sense to use some more common
> platform such as JavaScript, or Flash, or Python, or even straight
> Visual Basic?  Note that the WCST was automated using simple Turbo
> Basic (for DOS?) as far back as 1996.  Isn't this another case of,
> "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"  Or,
> insofar as I have not kept up with the literature on the WCST, am I
> just missing something that is obvious to the rest of you?
>
> Also, apparently scoring the test is quite complex (perseverative
> errors, nonperseverative errors, etc.), so building that into the
> program (as opposed to leaving that to later data analysis) would
> take some care.
>
> Finally, did anyone else know that the term "Wisconsin Card Sorting
> Test" was trademarked by Wells Printing and Digital Services of
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA (seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_card_sort)?  So we cannot
> give the name "Wisconsin Card Sorting Test" to any printed materials
> that we produce, but since the trademark does not cover computerized
> versions we may continue to use the name "Wisconsin Card Sorting
> Test" for our computerized versions.
>
> With all that said, note that someone did make an automated WCST demo
> for Inquisit's Millisecond
> (http://www.millisecond.com/download/samples/v3/CardSort), though I
> do not know what data it stores or how it handles the test scoring.
>
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> At 8/20/2010 12:10 PM Friday, David McFarlane wrote:
>
> >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

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