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charlottebooth	charlottebooth posted 11 Years Ago HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 45, Visits: 249	Hi there, I am creating a memory task, whereby participants view a series of 50 words and have to respond to the question "Describes me?" for each word. This is fine and has been programmed in Inquisit. However, I am struggling with adding the next part, which requires a filler task - consisting of simple maths equations, and a free recall task - where participants are asked to list as many words as they can remember from the task. I have tried to programme the maths equations using textboxes and then creating a trial and block for this - however this hasn't work - my question is whether Inquisit does not allow you to use survey functions in experiments. Also, I don't know the best element to use to display my free recall task - which should have a giant textbox where participants can write down many words. If anyone could help that would be much appreciated!! Thanks, Charlotte
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Dave	Dave posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 109K	Survey features work just fine in an <expt> context. The two key things to realize are (1) A <surveypage> is a special kind of <trial>. You can run it via a <block>'s /trials attribute. (2) A <survey> is a special type of <block>. You can run it via an <expt>'s /blocks attribute. As for your 2nd question: Either use <textbox>/<surveypage> or set up <openended> elements (the latter is preferable, IMO). An <openended> element is a type of <trial>.
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charlottebooth	charlottebooth posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 45, Visits: 249	Great thanks! I want to use the <openended element. However, I am not familiar with it's attributes. It doesn't seem to have a caption attribute where I can write what the participants is supposed to do. Any advice for this or other important attributes to consider for this element would be much appreciated. Charlotte :)
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Dave	Dave posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 109K	It doesn't need any /caption attribute. You simply display any <text> (and/or other stimuli) you want via its /stimulustimes or -frames attribute, just like with any regular <trial> element. You'll find all attributes detailed / documented in the language reference topic for the <openended> element.
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charlottebooth	charlottebooth posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 45, Visits: 249	I can't get it to work. This is the script for that page: <textbox recall> /caption = "Now we ask you to remember as many adjectives (describing words) as you can and type them in the space below.~nThis is a memory test, so try and write down as many as you can!" /position = (30%, 70%) </textbox> <openended recall> /stimulustimes = [1=recall] </openended> <block recall> /trials = [1=recall] </block> <expt > /blocks = [1=SRET; 2=filler; 3=recall] </expt> Sorry to keep posting on here - is there a detailed handbook you can get somewhere?
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Dave	Dave posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 109K	A <textbox> is not a stimulus. It cannot be displayed via /stimulusframes. You simply do: <text recalltext> / items = ("Now we ask you to remember as many adjectives...") / position = (30%,70%) ... </text> <openended recall> /stimulustimes = [1=recalltext] ... </openended> The documentation is installed to your system along with Inquisit Lab and is available online in a variety of formats as well: https://www.millisecond.com/support/docs/ I would recommend working through all the tutorials included in the documentation prior to moving on with your own script(s). This will give you the necessary grounding in the basic concepts and most important syntax constructs.
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