lea
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Post by lea on Oct 9, 2020 11:16:50 GMT
Hello all! I am doing a perception experiment in which people rate a total of 333 audio stimuli (they are getting paid for it or get credit for their major, so getting them to do the whole thing isn't a problem). We thought about adding breaks into the experiment so that they don't get too tired. Is it possible to design a task in which a .png is shown and the button to continue to the remaining tasks appears after a certain amount of time, say a minute, to make sure they can't skip the break? Right now I have two tasks in my rating-experiment (one with only female speakers on the audio stimuli, one with only male speakers so we can make sure they either hear all male stimuli at first or all female ones). My idea is to devide it further into three tasks each, so a total of 6 tasks and then add breaks in between. I thought about showing a .png that says something like "please take a break for a minute" So our task order would be
femalestimuli1 (one third of all female stimuli)
break femalestimuli2 break femalestimuli3 break malestimuli1 break malestimuli2 break malestimuli3
I couldn't find anything about timing the continue button. Is this possible or is there an easier way to do this?
Thank you a lot!!
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Post by yiannis on Oct 9, 2020 11:33:37 GMT
You can use blocks I guess. Perhaps someone more experienced can provide a more elegant solution
(following a non-working example - just the schematic)
bitmap break.png
block block1 tasklist task1 111 # 111 is the number of trials end
message break # this bitmap will stay on till the spacebar is pressed
block block2 tasklist task2 111 # 111 is the number of trials end
message break # this bitmap will stay on till the spacebar is pressed
block block3 tasklist task3 111 # 111 is the number of trials end
message break # this bitmap will stay on till the spacebar is pressed
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Post by alexandra (AEC) on Oct 9, 2020 13:16:44 GMT
I agree with yiannis dividing the task into blocks could work nicely. In order to use a timed "continue" button I used my own png in the past similar to this:
# message task message
text align left show text "Please take a break for one minute." -390 -200 show text "Press “Continue“ in order to resume, when the button appears." -390 -100
delay 60000 show bitmap ContinueButton 0 0
readmouse l 1 600000 clear screen
and then just add the message as a message block
block mess tasklist message 1 end
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lea
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Post by lea on Oct 9, 2020 16:09:20 GMT
Thank you yianis and alexandra! I will definitely try this, fingers crossed!
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Post by lea on Oct 9, 2020 17:54:42 GMT
Thank you, this worked out just fine! Thanks to you both, I'm finally done with this study!
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Post by PsyToolkit on Oct 10, 2020 8:58:42 GMT
The suggestions are all good.
There is also an alternative way to do this.
I would argue, the whole reason experiments are subdivided in "blocks" is, in part, because people need to have breaks. The end of a block is a good time for a break.
You can, for example, divide your experiment in three blocks and then at the beginning or end of the block say, take a break, and then have a delay.
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