I am completely new at Inquisit and I have stranded already on my second day of building my IAT.
My test is a standart IAT test, measuring people's associations (positive/negative) with a certain category. But I want to measure people's associations twice, before and after reading a text (news message). Now, I can only find how to insert a page intro and a page end, but not how to put a text between two series of blocks.
If anyone could help, that would be great!
Hi Emma,
First, I would like to recommend you do the tutorials contained in the Inquisit help file. That'll give you a general idea of how to build experiments with it, and in particular how Inquisit's 'language' works when it comes to structuring things. Definitely try to get the hang of it before making any major modifications to existing scripts. And although this may take some time, it'll (a) help you better understand what you're doing and (b) enable you to state any problems you're facing more clearly -- which will in turn help other users here to offer quicker, better assistance.
As for the specific problem at hand, several strategies apply:
(1) Create new <block>, <trial>, etc. elements in your IAT script to show the news message and run them at the appropriate time via the <expt> element.
(2) Create a new *.exp file containing the necessary <expt>, <block>, <trial> etc. elements to show your news message. Then control the overall experimental flow with a <batch> file, e.g.
<batch>/ file = "firstIAT.exp"/ file = "newsmessage.exp"/ file = "secondIAT.exp"</batch>
Regards,
~Dave
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Dave, Thank you so much!
My IAT is finished and approved of, so I will be starting with my data collection tomorrow (I hope).
Now I only have to find out how to get all my data into 1 file as I will gather a lot of respondents. It is now putting the data into a new dat file every time. I found something about it having to do with default settings? but I can't figure out how to change this!
Also, is it necessary to have SPSS on the same computer as the one I'm gathering the data with, or is it possible to send the data file to a computer that has SPSS in the end?
Thanks for your help!
Hey Eva,You can make sure Inquisit saves just one file by using:
<data>/ separatefiles = false</data>And no, you don't have to have SPSS on the same computer as Inquisit. You just have to save the .dat file that results after doing the experiment.
Good luck with your experiment!
Ivor
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EmmaV:Now I only have to find out how to get all my data into 1 file as I will gather a lot of respondents. It is now putting the data into a new dat file every time. I found something about it having to do with default settings? but I can't figure out how to change this!
- When running participants in the desktop version, you can either have Inquisit put out a (a) single data file (containing the data for all subjects run on that particular computer) or (b) write separate data files for each subject. (a) is the default setting, (b) can be achieved via the <data> element's '/ separatefiles' attribute.
- When running participants in the web version, Inquisit will store a separate data file for each subject. This cannot be changed (and it wouldn't make much sense either).
- Several data files can be merged by simply opening multiple *.dat files from Inquisit's open file dialog (see: http://www.millisecond.com/support/docs/v3/html/howto/howtocombinedata.htm). Alternatively you can also combine your data files in Excel, SPSS or any other spreadsheet program.
EmmaV:Also, is it necessary to have SPSS on the same computer as the one I'm gathering the data with, or is it possible to send the data file to a computer that has SPSS in the end?
The data files can be transfered to and analyzed on any computer.