Hello

I downloaded the IAT word script from the inquisit page and would like to know, if its ok if i have in two of the four categories only one stimuli per category:

<item attributeAlabel>

/1 = "Gut"

</item>

<item attributeA>

/1 = "Freude"

/2 = "Liebe"

/3 = "Wundervoll"

/4 = "Schön"

/5 = "Vergnügen"

/6 = "Grossartig"

/7 = "Lachen"

/8 = "Glücklich"

</item>

<item attributeBlabel>

/1 = "Schlecht"

</item>

<item attributeB>

/1 = "Schrecklich"

/2 = "Grausam"

/3 = "Elend"

/4 = "Böse"

/5 = "Scheusslich"

/6 = "Misserfolg"

/7 = "Übel"

/8 = "Verlust"

</item>

<item targetAlabel>

/1 = "Generation"

</item>

<item targetA>

/1 = "Generation"

</item>

<item targetBlabel>

/1 = "Altersgruppe"

</item>

<item targetB>

/1 = "Altersgruppe"

</item>

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. The code you posted has the exact same number of stims as any other standard IAT / as in the original template.

The group number is a new feature in Inquisit 4, currently in beta. The publically available IAT scripts are for Inquisit 3 and thus don't make any use of group number. You can ignore it for now and just leave it alone at its default value.

The order of blocks is counterbalanced between subjects according to the supplied subject number (odd vs. even). See the script's <variables> element for details.

I generally recommend you work through the various tutorials included in the Inquisit documentation before moving on.

Regards,

~Dave

Thank you sooo much for your help.

With the first question i ment: that the two attitude categories consist each eight stimuli words to categorisize (like in the normal IAT-Skript). But my two target categories consist each only one stimuli word instead of eight words. Do i have to make any adjustments to the rest of the script? i tried it out and it works fine i just want to make sure that there is no problem.

Tank you a lot and wish you a great day!

Technically this shouldn't be a problem -- whether it makes much methodological sense, is anyone's guess, though.