Four conditions - One pool of stimuli

liwenna liwenna at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 10:15:29 UTC 2011


and what happens if you, in the new nested list, remove whatever is
entered in the collumn 'procedure' ?

On Jun 23, 3:26 pm, Emmet <emmet.c.cla... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thank you for your response- it was spot on. I also had a response
> emailed to me from another member, so thank you too! I understand what
> you are telling me although I am having one operational problem with
> it:
>
> >You can do this very easily
> > with a nested List.  Just put all your stimuli in their own nested
> > List, say, StimList.
>
> So I have my nested list which I have called Stimlist and I currently,
> for practice reasons, have one level which samples perfectly from my
> slide object. Now when I add in a second level with another stimulus I
> get this error message:
>
> "Run-time Error (Line 295) -999: Factor Error:
> Can't find procedure definition"
>
> So it runs through fine until I add a second level to my nested list.
> Considering I need 125 levels (pictures) to enter into this list, I am
> slighty worries. I have been reading other topics and have seen that
> perhaps I should enter all 125 pictures into one Level?
>
> many thanks in advance,
>
> Emmet
>
> University of York
>
> On Jun 16, 7:39 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>
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> > Emmet,
>
> > Stock reminder:  1) I do not work for PST.  2) PST's trained staff
> > takes any and all questions athttp://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp, and they
> > strive to respond to all requests in 24-48 hours -- this is pretty
> > much their substitute for proper documentation, so make full use of
> > it.  3) If you do get an answer from PST Web Support, please extend
> > the courtesy of posting their reply back here for the sake of others.
>
> > That said, here is my take...
>
> > Not sure that I follow your question, so I will answer one that I
> > can.  Suppose you have a pool of 125 stimuli and, *within any one
> > session*, you want to sample 25 at a time randomly without
> > replacement (i.e., no stimulus reused either within any sample of 25
> > nor until all 125 stimuli are sampled).  You can do this very easily
> > with a nested List.  Just put all your stimuli in their own nested
> > List, say, StimList.  Set that List to Random.  Now, in any other
> > List where you want to use stimuli from StimList, simply add StimList
> > in the Nested column, and then use the attributes from StimList just
> > as you normally would.  You can have one main List take 25 samples
> > from StimList, and later take another 25 samples, and it will pick up
> > right where it left off.  IOW, E-Prime essentially shuffles all 125
> > stimuli, and then "draws" from that shuffled List until the List is
> > exhausted, and then reshuffles the List and starts over.  Or, you can
> > get other effects by changing settings under the List Reset/Exit tab.
>
> > In general, just think of Lists (whether nested or not) as decks of
> > playing cards, that's how I have come to understand them.  Think of
> > nested Lists as just additional, separate decks of cards that get
> > drawn from whenever you draw a row from a main List that names a
> > nested List.  I have written about this elsewhere, if you search
> > around you may find my earlier posts here or on the PST Forum, but
> > here is another attempt...
>
> > So, each "card" (row) in any "deck" (List) has some attribute values
> > written on it; some of those may be the names of other decks (nested
> > Lists) to draw from.  So, you start by shuffling all these decks as
> > needed.  Then you draw a card from a "main" deck, and read off the
> > attribute values written on it.  If any of these names another deck,
> > you draw a card from those decks and read off those attribute values;
> > once again, if any of these names another deck then you draw from
> > that deck, etc.  When you are done you will have a set of attribute
> > values to work with for that trial.  At the end of the trial you put
> > all the cards that you drew onto a discard pile for each deck, and
> > then draw new cards.  Whenever you exhaust any deck, you pick up its
> > discard pile, reshuffle that deck as needed, and carry on.
>
> > It gets a little more complicated than this because you can modify
> > this behavior by changing the settings under the List Reset/Exit tab,
> > but this is a pretty good first approximation.
>
> > Now, if you want samples of 25 to take place *across* separate
> > sessions, well, that is an entirely different and more complex
> > matter.  Could be done, but no sense trying to explain that now.
>
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
> > "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
> > public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."  (Richard Feynman,
> > Nobel prize-winning physicist)
>
> > At 6/14/2011 12:18 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
>
> > >Hi all,
>
> > >I have battled through the entire user guide and I am definitely
> > >getting places with my E Prime project but I have one sticking point I
> > >hope you can help me with. I have a within-groups design withfour
> > >groups (and one practice condition) and each condition will receive 25
> > >picture slides. I think that my answer may lie within the nested lists
> > >option but I'm struggling to a find a way to have each of the
> > >conditionsrandomly sample (without replacement) their 25 pictures
> > >from the same 125 picture list so that, in effect, each participant,
> > >regardless of the counterbalancing ofconditionshas a unique ordering
> > >of the stimuli from start through finish.
>
> > >Please let me know if I have not explained myself clearly or if you
> > >would like me to post up a screenshot or something (can I do that?)
>
> > >many thanks in advance,
>
> > >Emmet Clarke
>
> > >University of York- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -

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