___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *REMOTE ASSOCIATES TEST - Item by Item* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 01-17-2017 last updated: 02-28-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-28-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a variant of the Remote Associates Test, a test of creativity, based on: Mednick, S. A. (1962). The associative basis of the creative process. Psychological Review, 69, 220-232. Mednick, S. A. (1968). Remote Associates Test. Journal of Creative Behavior, 2, 213-214. Bowden, E.M., & Jung-Beeman, M. (2003). Normative data for 144 compound remote associate problems. Behavioral Research Methods, Instrumentation, and Computers, 35, 634-639. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TASK DESCRIPTION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Participants are presented 30 triads consisting of 3 remotely associated words of the kind (paint/doll/cat) and are asked to come up with a fourth item that is associated with all three (here: "house"). The 30 triads are presented one-by-one (participants cannot go back and forth between items) Each triad has a maximum timelimit of 1 minute. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes max. 30 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'remoteassociatestest_itembyitem_raw*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant)* build: The specific Inquisit version used (the 'build') that was run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) date, time: date and time script was run subject, group: with the current subject/groupnumber session: with the current session id blockcode, blocknum: the name and number of the current block (built-in Inquisit variable) trialcode, trialnum: the name and number of the currently recorded trial (built-in Inquisit variable) Note: trialnum is a built-in Inquisit variable; it counts all trials run; even those that do not store data to the data file such as feedback trials. Thus, trialnum may not reflect the number of main trials run per block. triadCount: counts the triads stimulusitem: the presented triad difficulty: stores the difficulty for the current triad solution: stores the solution for the current triad response: the participant's response correct: the correctness of the response (1 = correct; 0 = incorrect) latency: the response latency (in ms) (measured from onset of triad to submitting response) (2) Summary data file: 'remoteassociatestest_itembyitem_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant)* inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) (parameter) maxResponseWindow: the maximum time (in ms) allowed for each item (parameter) nr_Triads: the number of triads presented (default: 30) numberCorrect: number of correctly solved triads propSolved: proportion correctly solved triads meanRT: mean correct latency (in ms) for solved triads SD: standard deviation of correct latencies numberCorrect_easy: number of correctly solved 'easy' triads propSolved_easy: proportion correctly solved 'easy' triads meanRT_easy: mean correct latency (in ms) for solved 'easy' triads SD_easy: standard deviation of correct latencies for solved 'easy' triads numberCorrect_medium: number of correctly solved 'medium' triads propSolved_medium: proportion correctly solved 'medium' triads meanRT_medium: mean correct latency (in ms) for solved 'medium' triads SD_medium: standard deviation of correct latencies for solved 'medium' triads numberCorrect_hard: number of correctly solved 'hard' triads propSolved_hard: proportion correctly solved 'hard' triads meanRT_hard: mean correct latency (in ms) for solved 'hard' triads SD_hard: standard deviation of correct latencies for solved 'hard' triads * separate data files: to change to one data file for all participants (on Inquisit Lab only), go to section "DATA" and follow further instructions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - 30 triads are presented one by one - 10 triads are categorized as "easy", 10 triads are categorized as "medium", 10 triads are categorized as "hard" Categorization (Bowden & Jung-Beeman, 2003 - Appendix): easy: proportion of participants solving triad (at 15s) > 0.75 medium: 0.45 < proportion of participants solving triad (at 15s) < 0.55 hard: proportion of participant solving triad (at 15s) < 0.25 - the order of the triads is determined randomly for each participant (by default - can be edited under section Editable Lists) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ STIMULI ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - triads are selected from Bowden & Jung-Beeman (2003), Appendix - triads can be replaced under section "Editable Stimuli" ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Instructions are not original to the task. They are provided by Millisecond Software as htm/html pages and can be edited by changing the provided htm/html files. To edit htm/html-files: open the respective documents in simple Text Editors such as TextEdit (Mac) or Notepad (Windows). ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: /maxResponseWindow: the maximum time (in ms) allowed for each item /nr_triads: the number of triads presented (default: 30) /debugmode: 1 = script runs in debug mode (presents solutions); 0 = otherwise