Random lists and orders, but with correspondence block1/block2

[David McFarlane]

Catarina,

Stock reminder:  1) I do not work for PST.  2) PST's trained staff 
take any and all questions at 
http://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) In addition, PST takes questions at their Facebook page 
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), and offers several instructional videos there and on their YouTube 
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though).  4) If you do get an answer from PST staff, please extend 
the courtesy of posting their reply back here for the sake of others.

That said, here is my take...

Quick response, addressing merely the "Study-Recall" aspect of this 
design -- take a look at the StudyRecall.es example downloadable from 
the PST web site.  That should give you ideas.

And just a general overal pointer on Lists & nested Lists in 
E-Prime:  As I describe in my online E-Prime course (and in other 
threads both here and at the PST Forum), I have found it helpful to 
think of them all these Lists as separate decks of playing cards.

Good luck.
-----
David McFarlane
E-Prime training 
online:  http://psychology.msu.edu/Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx
Twitter:  @EPrimeMaster (twitter.com/EPrimeMaster)


At 3/14/2012 06:06 AM Wednesday, you wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I know how to work with E-prime in general but I never did scripts
>with it. I have 3 questions and I hope you can help me on this.
>
>I have a final list of 80 English and 80 Dutch words. I want each
>participant to see 40 English and 40 Dutch words. All the Dutch words
>are translations of the English words and these different languages of
>the words are separated in two different blocks.The most important is
>that the words appearing in the second block of presentation must be
>the translations of the words in the first block (if they see
>"happy"in the first they must see "blij"in the second).
>
>This is the general idea. My questions are:
>
>1- From the 80 Eng and the 80 Dutch words lists I want to take
>randomly 40 words (of each) for each participant. The idea is that
>instead of having 2 or more equivalent lists and counterbalanced them
>for subject, I want each participant to see different combinations of
>words, randomly assigned, in a different order of presentation. For
>that is important to guarantee a) that all words will be seen by the
>same number of participants and b) the words in the second block are
>the translations of the ones of the first block.
>
>2- From that 40 English (and Dutch) words they will be seen, I want to
>specify that they will always see 10 of category A, 10 of category B,
>10 of category C and 10 of category D.
>
>3- If possible I do not want them to see more than 3 words of the same
>category one after the other.
>
>
>Thank you so much for your help
>
>Catarina

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