Inquisit Tutorials

Inquisit is a powerful programming interface for presenting and measuring reaction times to a host of stimuli raging from sound to graphics with input ranging from voice to touchscreen. Before continuing, it's important to be sure that you install the Windows Components required by Inquisit . If your operating system doesn't have the required files, Inquisit will not run properly.

Once you've loaded Inquisit and the support files, the following tutorials will guide you through the process of creating different kinds of experiments.

Inquisit reads instructions from a file called a script. Writing an experiment consists of simply creating a simple text file. The text tells Inquisit what to do, when to do it, and how to record data (e.g. Reaction Times) from each trial.

The text that Inquisit uses to perform a set of operations is called a script. From this point on, each set of directions (saved as *.exp files) will be referred to as a script. If you installed Inquisit using the default options, the scripts for the tutorials were installed in your C:\Program Files\Inquisit\ directory.

A Subliminal Priming Task The script for this tutorial is in the file subliminal_tutorial.exp.

An Implicit Attitude Task The script for this tutorial is in the file iat_tutorial.exp.

A Covert Attention Task The script for this tutorial is in the file ca_tutorial.exp.