___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R)* *START script* *Mouse or Touch Input* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 09-29-2020 last updated: 11-19-2020 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 11-19-2020 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the START script to run the Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R). The CATS and CATS-R were created by: Sarah G. Schaffer, PhD Karen B. Froming, PhD Amanda L. Gregory, PhD C. Michael Levy, PhD Paul Ekman, PhD Reference for Means and Standard Deviations used to calculate z-scores: Emotion Processing: The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User Manual. Published 2006 by Psychology Software Inc ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TEST SET UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R) consists of 13 subtests: subtest1: Identity Discrimination subtest2: Affect Discrimination subtest3: Nonemotional Prosody Discrimination subtest4: Emotional Prosody Discrimination subtest5: Name Affect subtest6: Name Emotional Prosody subtest7: Match Affect subtest8: Select Affect subtest9: Conflicting Prosody - Attend to Prosody subtest10: Conflicting Prosody - Attend to Meaning subtest11: Match Emotional Prosody to Emotional Face subtest12: Match Emotional Face to Emotional Prosody subtest 13: 3 Faces Test This START script is a batch script that automatically runs (1) cats_taskselection.iqx: this script collects demographic information and allows users to customize the sequence of the 13 tests (NOTE: this feature can be turned off by a parameter setting in script catsr_taskselection.iqx; by default users can select the tasks to run) (2) the number of subtests selected in the order specified: catsr_task1.iqx - catsr_task13.iqx (if not all subtests are selected, the scripts will start with a splash screen but then skip the actual test) (3) catsr_summary.iqx: the final script alerts the user that the end has been reached and calculates all summary variables. See script "catsr_summary.iqx" for a data glossary. Note: the individual subtests cats_subtest1.iqx to cats_subtest13.iqx can be run as single scripts as well. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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: