Using stimuli based on participant answers

Wed Jan 9 22:46:00 UTC 2013

Hi Tim,

You might have more luck without the quotes (i.e. StudyWord.RESP instead of
"StudyWord.RESP"). You are now comparing two literal strings that are never
identical.

Best
Paul

On 9 January 2013 22:00, Tim <tritzert at kent.edu> wrote:

> I downloaded the "Study-Recall" example and have been playing with that
> most of today - I can't seem to get it to do exactly what I want it to do.
> As I understand it (and I am a complete novice to programming other than
> reading the E-Basic stuff and practicing a few days with that) E-Prime is
> taking all items sampled for the study session and using the SetAttrib
> method to populate a list for recall.
>
> To use only the items that participants respond to by pressing "1," I
> have been experimenting with some If...Then statements such as this (with
> StudyWord being the name of the stimuli display:
>
> If "StudyWord.RESP" = "1" Then
>     RecallList.SetAttrib counter, "Word", c.GetAttrib("Word")
>     RecallList.SetAttrib counter, "CorrectAnswer", "1"
> End If
>
> I am stuck here - despite trying pretty much everything I can think of I
> cannot seem to figure out how to tell E=Prime to look at the participant
> response. Maybe there a specific thing that I am unaware of to list after
> IF that refers to what the participant enters?
>
> Any thoughts?   Again, any help is very much appreciated!!
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:05:27 PM UTC-5, McFarlane, David wrote:
>>
>> First, my generic answer to the recurring question of, "Can E-Prime
>> do this?"  In short, almost certainly Yes; in full, E-Prime is a
>> fairly full-featured computer programming platform, and can in
>> principle do anything that a Universal Turing Machine (e.g., a
>> stored-program computer) can do, subject to performance limitations
>> (e.g., speed and storage capacity).  In practice, E-Prime  provides a
>> better representation for some tasks than for others, as is true of
>> any representational system for anything (grammar, images, time
>> series, music, etc.).
>>
>> Second, for what you want to do, you should look first at the
>> "Study-Recall" example that you may download from PST.  Good luck!
>>
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>> At 1/8/2013 04:41 PM Tuesday, Tim wrote:
>> >I am currently designing a study and have run into a roadblock. I am
>> >presenting subjects with a list of 100 words. Each word is presented
>> >once at random and participants respond to by either pressing "1" or
>> >"2." For the first trial, I want participants to completely go
>> >through all words, which was obviously easy to set up.
>> >
>> >However, I next want participants to again go through the list of
>> >words, but this time only using the words they previously pressed
>> >"1" for. I also want to repeat this process until just 10 words
>> >remain. My first question is this: is E-Prime even capable of doing
>> >this? And then of course, if so, how would this be accomplished?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Any help or advice would be very much appreciated, thank you!! And
>> >for what it is worth, the words are things that people value and the
>> >task is designed to help people clarify their deeply held values.
>>
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