Thanks for the reply! Based on your comments, I was able to pinpoint that the issue not actually about the keyboard component. Anything with a indefinite duration is preventing the quick presentation items (the fixation cross and the image) to appear. I have created a new post that more aptly titled: new post
To answer your question @stanley1O1. The force end of routine button was set up correctly.
Neither the fixation cross or the image were appearing after the first loop. The reason why I was pretty sure that the loops were advancing was because I had 16 loops and if I pressed the space bar 16 times the experiment ended. I have since modified the experiment to better capture the issue.
I originally thought this issue was about the keyboard component. But it actually seems to be about how long things are on the screen. I created two more loops: one with just the quick presented sitmuli where each loop terminates after 900 ms, a second with the keyboard loop I had yesterday, and a third one where the keyboard is replaced with a label. The issue seems to be about indefinite duration since the latter two don’t show a fixation cross or an image.