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Thanks so much, this helps a lot.

I just wanna display 20 pictures and have subjects press a key (enter or whatever other key) to display a field in which they write what they see. I'm guessing that would be <openended>?

I'm displaying the pictures full screen and that's why I want to have the field pop up after they look at it, so they're unobstructed while the subjects look at them.

Not sure what goes in here

<picture mypicture>
/ items = pictureitems
...
</picture>

Right now I'm getting an error saying Could not locate trial 'pictureitems'

Thanks again.

At a minimum, you need a <picture> element with the 20 images as its items, a <trial> element that displays the <picture> element and collects a response, and a <block> that runs the <trial> 20 times.

<picture mypicture>
/ items = pictureitems
...
</picture>

<item pictureitems>
/ 1 = "image01.jpg"
...
/ 20 = "image20.jpg"
</item>

<trial mytrial>
/ stimulusframes = [1=mypicture]
...
</trial>

<block myblock>
/ trials = [1-20 = mytrial]
...
</block>

Depending on what kind of "answer" you need to collect, you might want to use either <likert> or <openended> elements instead of <trial>.

The Picture IAT tutorial in the Inquisit documentation might be worth a look, too, you'll find the relevant basics covered there in some greater detail.