Dear all,
We have a question related to a variable that seems to be “intrinsically” created by psychopy. In this section, we want to make sure participants understand the instructions of the experiment, so we ask them 5 questions about the experiment. If they get all 5 correct, they move on in the experiment; if they get <5 correct, they have to take the test over again. This repeats until they get all 5 correct.
In order to do that, we have a loop called Test , where we repeated the routine of presenting subjects questions. Every time the subject answers correctly, we increase a counter by 1. If the counter reaches 5, we let them bypass a loop called FailedLoop . Otherwise they need to go through that FailedLoop , which presents them with a screen telling them they have to re-do the test. The participants are then looped back to the beginning of the test.
Here, the counter we defined is number_correct , and in order to make this counter change values, we used variables that are automatically and “intrinsically” created by psychopy , like Test.thisN , which stands for the number of occurrences of the current Test loop, and Testkey.corr , which is a Boolean variable indicating whether a response is correct or not.
It seems these variables work in psychopy (offline experiment) but not in JS (online Pavlovia version), because we encounter some problems with them:
In our Test loop, under the “Begin Routine” tab, we have
Python:
if Test.thisN == 0:
number_correct = 0
JS:
number_correct = 0
if (Test.thisN == 0) {
number_correct = 0;
}
Under the “End Routine” tab, we have
python:
if TestKey.corr:
number_correct = number_correct + 1
if Test.thisN + 1 == Test.nTotal:
if number_correct == 5:
FailedLoop_reps = 0
TestLoop.finished = True
else:
FailedLoop_reps = 1
JS:
if (TestKey.corr == 1) {
number_correct = number_correct + 1;
}
if (Test.thisN + 1 == Test.nTotal) {
if (number_correct == 5) {
FailedLoop_reps = 0;
TestLoop.finished = true;
}
else {
FailedLoop_reps = 1;
}
}
The offline version works perfectly. But when we run the online version, we get the error :
TypeError: Cannot read property ‘0’ of undefined
We suspect this has something to do with the psychopy-generated variables, as mentioned above. I was wondering if anyone could help us with this issue? Thanks a lot!