Inquisit Task Library

Download scripts for well-known cognitive and neuropsychological paradigms. All scripts are free of charge for Inquisit license holders and those evaluating Inquisit. If you are looking for a task that isn't here, or if you have written a task that you'd like to share with the community, please contact .

Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) - Payne et al. (2005)

Alcohol IAT - Wiers et al. (2002)

Auditory Oddball Task - Squires et al. (1975)

Baddeley's Grammatical Reasoning Test - Baddeley (1968)

Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) - Lejuez et al. (2002)

BeanFest - Fazio et al. (2004)

Blackjack - Las Vegas, Nevada

Brief IAT - Sriram & Greenwald (2009)

Game of Chicken - Rapaport, A. (1966)

Columbia Card Task - Figner et al. (2009)

Corsi Block Tapping Task - Corsi (1972)

Continuous Performance Test (CPT) - Rosvold et al. (1956)

Cyberball - Williams et al. (2000)

Delay Discounting Task - Cherek et al. (1997) and Richards et al. (1999)

Digit Span - Lumiley & Calhoon (1934)

Dot Estimation Task - Shrauger (1975)

Eating Disorder Inventory - Garner et al (1983)

Evaluative Conditioning Task - Olson & Fazio (2001)

Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST) - De Houwer (2003)

Finger Tapping Test - Reitan & Wolfson (1985)

Framing Effect - Tversky & Kahneman (1981)

Food Stroop - Davidson & Wright (2002)

Game of Dice Task - Brand et al. (2002)

Go/No-Go Task - Fillmore et al. (2006)

Go/No-Go Association Task (GNAT) - Nosek & Banaji (2001)

Hungry Donkey Task - Crone & van der Molen (2004)

Implicit Association Test (IAT) - Greenwald et al. (1998)

Inattentional Blindness Task - An K Raes & Rudi De Raedt (2010)

Information Sampling Task - Clark et al. (2006)

Internal vs. External Attention Task - Mansell et al. (2003)

Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) - Bechara (1994)

Karpicke & Roediger Learning Task - Karpicke & Roediger (2008)

Lexical Decision Task - Lepore & Brown (2002)

Multifactor IAT - Sriram & Greenwald (2009)

Mackworth Clock Vigilance Test - Mackworth (1948)

NASA Task Load Index (NASATLX) - Hart & Staveland (1988)

N-Back Task - Jaeggi et al (2010)

Operation Span Task (OSPAN) - Turner & Engle (1989)

Partner-Focused Go/No-Go Association Task (Partner GNAT) - Lee, Rogge & Reis (2010)

Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) - Gronwall (1977)

Picture Story Exercise - Schultheiss & Pang (2008)

Police Officer's Dilemma Task - Correl et al (2002)

Rapid Visual Information Processing (RVIP) - Wesnes et al (1983)

Recoding-Free Implicit Association Test (IAT-RF) - Rothermund et al. (2009)

Reading Span Task (RSPAN) - Daneman & Carpenter (1980)

Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale - Rosenberg (1965)

Running Span Task - Broadway & Engle (2010)

Self-Ordered Pointing Task - Petrides & Milner (1982)

Self-Paced Reading Task - Just, Carpenter & Woolley (1982)

Simon Task - Simon & Wolf (1963)

Simple Reaction Time Task - Bliss (1893)

Single Target IAT (ST-IAT) - Wigboldus, Holland & van Knippenberg (2006)

Sorting Paired Features Task - Bar-Anan, Nosek, & Vianello (2009)

Spatial Delayed Response Task Hershey, Craft, Glauser, & Hale (1998)

Sternberg Memory Task - Sternberg (1966)

Stop Signal Task - Verbruggen et al (2008)

Stroop Color-Word Task - Stroop (1935)

Symmetry Span Task - Kane et al. (2004)

Test of Variables of Attention - Greenberg (1991)

Tower of London Task - Shallice (1982)

Visual Statistical Learning Task (VSL) - Turk-Browne (2005)

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test - Grant & Berg (1948)

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Demographic survey. This script implements a demographic survey that users various types of questionnaire responses, including textboxes, radio buttons, and dropdowns.

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Overview demo This script provides a demo of Inquisit, including millisecond-precision reaction time measurement, rapid presentation of pictures and text, flexible task flow, branching, looping, support for video, audio, and flash animations, likert and openended questionnaires, HTML formatted instruction pages, reporting of performance.

Likert and Openended Questions Demonstrates how to run Likert and openended response questions. See also the Demographic survey sample for more flexible likert and openended text options.

Samples for Inquisit 2
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