CATS 13: Three Faces Test

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 29, 2020

Last Modified: January 02, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements subtest13 'THREE FACES TEST' of 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

The script runs with mouse and touch input.

References

Emotion Processing: The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User Manual. Published 2006 by Psychology Software Inc

Duration

2 minutes

Description

subtest13: THREE FACES TEST

Participants are presented 3 faces (different actors of the same gender); two of which depict the same emotion. Participants are asked to select the two faces that show the same emotion. (24 trials)

Procedure

1 Testblock of 24 trials
The order of the statements is predetermined.

Participants can select any of the 5 face options. Responses can be changed until 'next' is pressed.
If button 'repeat' is pressed, the statements get repeated.

By setting parameters.showadvanceButton to true, a '?'-button appears in the upper right corner.
If pressed, the next scheduled test item is skipped.

Stimuli

based on originals - can be edited under section Editable Stimuli

Instructions

based on originals - can be edited in file catsr_subtest13_instructions_inc.iqjs

Scoring

Means and Standard Deviations used to calculate z-scores are taken from the original User Manual
(see above for reference)

Summary Data

File Name: catsr_subtest13_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
computer.touch 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities
computer.hasKeyboard 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
subTest "subtest13"
age The age of the participant (if demographics were collected)
gender Female; Male; Other (if demographics were collected)
taskOrder The selected task order (if demographics were collected)
t13RawScore The number of correct responses in subtest13
t13RawScoreCorrected The number of correct responses in subtest13, corrected
in this subtest rawscores get corrected for Males under 40 and for Males over 59 by +2 to rawscore
t13ZScore The z-score for the corrected t13RawScore
z-scores get calculated based on Age Means
age < 40 = age group 20-39
41 < age < 60 = age group 40-59
60 > age = age group 60-79
if no age is provided the population mean and standard deviation is used
t13PropCorrect Proportion correct responses in subtest13
t13RT Mean response time (in ms) in subtest13; measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed
t13CorrRT Mean response time (in ms) of CORRECT responses in subtest13; measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed
t13t1 Q1 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t2 Q2 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t3 Q3 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t4 Q4 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t5 Q5 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t6 Q6 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t7 Q7 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t8 Q8 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t9 Q9 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t10 Q10 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t11 Q11 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t12 Q12 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t13 Q13 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t14 Q14 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t15 Q15 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t16 Q16 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t17 Q17 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t18 Q18 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t19 Q19 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t20 Q20 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t21 Q21 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t22 Q22 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t23 Q23 accuracy (1 or 0)
t13t24 Q24 accuracy (1 or 0)

Raw Data

File Name: catsr_subtest13_raw*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
build Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
computer.touch 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities
computer.hasKeyboard 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject Participant ID
group Group number
session Session number
subTest "subtest13"
age The age of the participant (if demographics were collected)
gender Female; Male; Other (if demographics were collected)
taskOrder The selected task order (if demographics were collected)
blockcode The name the current block (built-in Inquisit variable)
blocknum The number of the current block (built-in Inquisit variable)
trialcode The name of the currently recorded trial (built-in Inquisit variable)
trialnum The number of the currently recorded trial (built-in Inquisit variable)
trialnum is a built-in Inquisit variable; it counts all trials run
even those that do not store data to the data file.
trialCount Trial counter
subTest13TestItem The index of the selected image
testItem The presented image
correctResponse The dedicated correct response (= correct image from left (1) to right (3))
Example:23 => image2 and image3 are the correct selections
selectedResponse 12, 13, 23
correct Accuracy of response: 1 = correct response; 0 = otherwise
rt Cumulative response latency: measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
showAdvanceButton True = advanceButton button (to skip a trial) is presented in the upper right corner as a '?'
false = no advanceButton button is presented
false