Experiment

[David McFarlane]

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That said, here is my take...

At 10/19/2010 02:08 PM Tuesday, Louise Bennett wrote:
>Hi i was wondering if you could tell me if its possible to create this
>experiment on e-prime
>
>basically i want to present a fixation, then a target (prime), a
>distractor and then a second stimulus, this stimulus would consist of
>a list of 5 words vertically and I want participants to respond as to
>whethe the target (prime) is present or absent, i am unsure how to
>present the list of 5 words, and also i would want the target and the
>list of words to be different every single time, with forty single
>words + forty different lists of 5 words for the total number of
>trials, I was wondering if this was possible to do

Yes.

>  ... and how difficult it would be?

Fairly intricate to do, almost certainly involving nested 
Lists.  Might also require some inline code to manage all the 
contingencies in your design, though perhaps with clever use of 
nested Lists one could avoid that.

>  ... and if so any suggestions to how i could do this

Start by working through *all* the tutorials in *all* the Guides that 
came with E-Prime.  Pay special attention to the tutorial on nested 
Lists, and possibly chapter 4, "Using E-Basic", of the User's 
Guide.  And take a class on Introduction to Computer 
Programming.  Don't expect to get this done within the next few 
weeks, unless you hire it out to a competent professional.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder

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