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What are you trying to achieve?:
I have a study in which 54 sentence pairs appear word for word, while the rest of the sentence is displayed with underscores. The next word appears after the mouse is clicked. Each sentence pair should stay together, but the order of the sentence pairs should be random. After 6 sentence pairs should appear a question to one of the sentence pairs.
I wrote a code to get the sentences displayed with underscores but I don’t know how to put it into the experiment.
I don’t use a text for each word because it would be too many parts like that.
I know how to get each sentence displayed with the underscores, but I cannot get the a code to work to make the sentences appear after each other from my excel sheet. Whenever i tried to enter an excel sheet it didnt get displayed and by pressing the mouse once the whole excel sheet was done, instead of several words.
Maybe it would be better to make excel sheets for the 6 sentence pairs and the question, and then make 9 of theses sheets. And put all of theses 9 sheets into another sheet. And somehow randomize and loop these?
But I am not sure how to make that work.
Could someone please explain it to me?
What did you try to make it work?:
What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:
Include pasted full error message if possible. “That didn’t work” is not enough information.
Thank you for your reply.
I still don’t understand how I can make it work and need some help.
I have 54 sentences, that should appear in 9 groups (6 sentence pairs each). After each group will appear one question, one opportunity to answer the question, and one break image. After that the next group will appear. I don’t want any group to appear twice, but the order of the groups, and within the group should be random. However, the sentence pairs should stay together.
To get to the next sentence or slide, the mouse needs to be pressed.
Before the experiment starts the participants are asked about their gender and age.
I am not able to run the experiment currently, but it has worked before I added the middle part with the sentences.
I have currently only 3 groups but will add the rest once I figured out how it works, I didn’t want to make it more confusing for now.
Can someone please help me to make the experiment work?
Thank you!!!
Experiment.psyexp (77.0 KB)
I only added a code for the practice_sentences. It doesn’t seem to work so I didn’t add it to the others (yet)
Hello @SophieVDV
I just had a quick look at your experiment.
- Would you like to run the experiment online?
- Would you mind publishing your experimental material?
A blockwise approach can be implemented as follows:
Make only one routine to present your stimuli, not 3 (or 9 in the end). Simply iterate over the routine block by block. Create nine Excel files, each containing six sentences. Create one Excel file that contains the names of the nine Excel files you created earlier.
For example, the following condition file loads 10 stimulus files in random order in a learning experiment.
A stimulus-file has the following structure
The condition-file for the trial-loop is specified as follows. You might want to tick the Is trials box for your experiment.
Do you always want to present the question as the seventh sentence? This makes it highly predicable.
Try to achieve the word-by-word presentation once the block presentation runs as intended.
Best wishes Jens
Thank you for taking a look at my experiment! I really appreciate it!
Yes, I want to run the experiment online.
What do you mean with publishing my experimental material? The sentences that I want to use for the study or what are you referring to?
I wanted to do it with one list which includes the other lists, but each question only belongs to a specific sentence pair and I couldn’t figure out how to make thar work. That’s why I decided to make 9 separate lists that will appear in random order.
The question should always be in the 7th position (after 6 sentences) but since the sentences are in a random order, will the question be about sentence pair 1-6.
It is supposed to be predictable so that the participants know when they could take a break. The question and answer are not relevant for me, they act as a decoy and provide a structure.
Hello,
Sorry, I meant post the material here.
Best wishes Jens
Hello
Here is a little toy experiment using three blocks of six sentences each and a question following each block of sentences. The program uses four Excel files: one with the filenames of the Excel files containing the sentences and the question, and three Excel files containing the sentences and the question.
This is the flow of the experiment
The block loop reads the sentence files and presents the sentences in random order.
The trials loop reads a sentence file and presents rows 0:6 in random order, see the Selected rows parameter.
Each trial loop is followed by a question loop, which presents the seventh row of the sentence file.
Here are the test Excel files and the toy-experiment.
blockSentences.xlsx (9.9 KB)
File01.xlsx (8.7 KB)
File02.xlsx (8.7 KB)
File03.xlsx (8.7 KB)
BlockRand.psyexp (14.4 KB)
If you want to run the experiment online, you need to add File01 - File03 to the Additional resources in the Online tab of the Experiment settings.
Best wishes Jens
