Generate learning set of words, make subset, learn word then replace

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Hello, I am building an experiment that teaches English Vocabulary based on words participants select as unknown, I am having trouble using the selected words, thank you in advance for your time and help.

Objective:

  1. Participants are shown a list of words and click whether or not they know the word on a slider. Once they select 100 (set to 5 for now), the wordSelection routine ends, with the selected words saved in Learning_Set. The code for this part:
Begin Experiment:
Learning_Set = []

Begin Routine:
if trials_wordSelection.thisN == 0:
    number_select = 0

End Routine:
WordResponse = ratingWordSelection.getRating()
if WordResponse.lower() == "no":
    number_select = number_select + 1
    if number_select == 1:
        Learning_Set=[Word]
    else:
        Learning_Set.append(Word)

if number_select == 5:
    trials_wordSelection.finished = True
  1. The next routine, I need to take this Learning_Set, create an ‘Active_Learning_Set’ by selecting 20 of the 100 words in the Learning_Set and display them randomly with multiple choice responses for translation.
  2. Once a word has been answered correctly three times it should be dropped/marked as learned and be replaced by another word from the Learning_Set. So a set of 20 ‘not learned words’ should be active at all times.
  3. A word answered incorrectly should be displayed again randomly after at least 3 other trials interval.
  4. Feedback ‘Correct’, ‘Incorrect’ will be displayed after each trial.
  5. A block will end after 40 trials.
  6. The next block should pick up where the previous one left off.

Question:
I have no idea how to access my Learning_Set in another routine, the above (2-7), will be the testing phase in which I need to access the Learning_Set, the testing phase is preceded by a similar practice round with only 5 trials. Aside from accessing the set, how can I make a subset behave as described above? The learning_set contains English word in the end, I would provide the testing phase loop with an excel file containing all of the words (including not selected words), the translation (correct answer) and alternative translations. I guess the core of my question is, how do I structure this?

Thank you so much in advance for any and all help in this. As a newby in this I am totally lost in how to proceed. Please let me know if I am not being clear enough on what I am trying to do.

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This is not trivial. So, just to get you started: Accessing the Learning_Set list in another routine is relatively straightforward. Once your list is complete, you could shuffle it to create a random order:

shuffle(Learning_Set)

In the next routine and its associated loop, you could then have a code component that uses the loop counter as a list index to get one word per trial:

myWord = Learning_Set[trials.thisN]  # assuming the loop is called trials

In the same routine, below the code component, you could then have a text component, that has $myWord as Text (set to every repeat). The loop itself would not be associated with an input file, but would only specify a number of repetitions.

Hope this helps initially.

Jan

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Hi Jan!

Thank you very much for your tips, this actually inspired me enough to get me going again and I’ve been making progress for several hours now. Very much appreciated!

Leonie