Conditional cumulative feedback, help.

[wafa saoud]

Hi,

I wanted to thank you for the instructions. I ended up needing to modify a
few things given my design but it ended up working out perfectly.

Best Wishes!

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:18 AM, liwenna <liwenna at gmail.com> wrote:

> good luck.
>
> Do note that Peter and I basically proposed the same solution, it's
> not really two different options.
>
> On Oct 12, 2:30 pm, welise <wafa.el... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you, both, so much.  I also appreciate the quick replies. I will
> > try these options.
> >
> > On Oct 12, 8:22 am, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi!
> >
> > > What you need is a global variable, a varibale that is indeed capable
> > > to carry over information from one trial to the next.
> > > First go to the user tab in the script window (bottom left corner
> > > script window).
> > > Here you declare a variable called... scorecounter:
> >
> > > Dim scorecounter as integer
> >
> > > Now... at the end of every trial the scorecounter need to be updated
> > > by adding the new trial score and since a variable is not
> > > automatically logged into the datafile, I always transfer the value of
> > > scorecounter onto an attribute (that is logged):
> >
> > > Scorecounter = scorecounter + c.getattrib ("trialscore")  (<- or where
> > > ever you stored the score right now)
> > > c.setattrib "scorecount", scorecounter
> >
> > > you can then use the attribute scorecount on your display to provide
> > > feedback by showing a text like: "your new score is [scorecount]"
> >
> > > The above is a very minimalistic explanation... I believe the e-primer
> > > has some more info on global variables, it can be downloaded at
> > > step.psy.cmu.edu/materials/EPrimer.pdf
> >
> > > Best
> >
> > > liw
> >
> > > On Oct 12, 2:10 pm, Peter Quain <pqu... at une.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > > > perhaps something like this (rough example) would work? ... go to
> > > > User Tab in script, and create global variables -
> >
> > > > Dim intTotalScore, intTrialScore  as integer
> >
> > > > ... then in inline at start of TrialProcedure -
> >
> > > > intTrialScore = 0
> >
> > > > ... and in an inline wherever in the trial procedure you assign the
> > > > values that your feedback presents (or at the end of the trial
> sequence) -
> >
> > > > intTtrialScore = [whatever the score is for that trial]
> > > > intTotalScore = intTotalScore + intTtrialScore
> >
> > > > At 10:58 PM 12/10/2011, you wrote:
> >
> > > > >Hi Everybody,
> >
> > > > >I am hoping somebody can help me with presenting participants with
> > > > >cumulative RESP feedback that is conditional on two separate
> > > > >responses:
> >
> > > > >In my experiment, participants are first presented with a slide and
> > > > >asked to press "1" if they will answer "A" or  "2" if they will
> answer
> > > > >"B". I then have 6 slide states, randomly presented, with 4
> different
> > > > >stimuli presented on each (I used 6 slides in order to change the
> > > > >positioning of each of the stimuli). If the participant chose "1"
> > > > >previously, they are expected to choose the corresponding stimuli
> > > > >accordingly (by pressing 1, 2, 3, or 4 to indicate the correct
> > > > >position of the stimuli). and if they chose "2" they are expected to
> > > > >choose the stimuli that corresponds to that choice. If they chose
> "1"
> > > > >and then chose the correct corresponding stimuli, they get no
> > > > >feedback. If they chose "1" and gave incorrect stimuli response then
> > > > >they get  Incorrect feedback with a message that says "-5 points".
> If
> > > > >they chose "2" and made the correct stimuli response- I have
> feedback
> > > > >randomly set to give them one of two messages, and one of those
> > > > >messages includes "-10 points" while the other includes "+10 points"
> >
> > > > >So far, so good. I have experiment designed up until this point. The
> > > > >problem arises when I try to present cumulative score feedback:
> >
> > > > >Within each trial, after the participant receives the first set of
> > > > >feedback and the corresponding points lost of gained, I need to
> > > > >present them with feedback that tells them their new total score. so
> > > > >total score - 5 points, or total score + 10 points, or total score
> -10
> > > > >points, and this needs to carry over from one trial to the net.  I
> > > > >have no idea how to do this. I started off by trying to do this with
> a
> > > > >text slide but I can't figure out how to do an inline text that can
> > > > >make all this happen. I am in over my head and any help would be so
> > > > >much appreciated.
> >
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