The E-Primer

An Introduction to Creating Psychological Experiments in E-Prime®

Autor: Verdonschot, Michiel; Spapé, Rinus; van Steenbergen, Henk
Editor: Leiden University Press
ISBN: 9789087283209
eISBN Pdf: 9789400603363
Lloc de publicació: Holland , Netherlands
Any de publicació digital: 2019
Mes: Març
Pàgines: 244
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

E-Prime® is the leading software suite by Psychology Software Tools for designing and running Psychology lab experiments. The E-Primer is the perfect accompanying guide: It provides all the necessary knowledge to make E-Prime accessible to everyone. You can learn the tools of Psychological science by following the E-Primer through a series of entertaining, step-by-step recipes that recreate classic experiments. The updated E-Primer expands its proven combination of simple explanations, interesting tutorials and fun exercises, and makes even the novice student quickly confident to create their dream experiment. Featuring: * Learn the basic and advanced features of E-Studio’s flexible user interface * 15 step-by-step tutorials let you replicate classic experiments from all Psychology fields * Learn to write custom code in E-Basic without having any previous experience in programming * Second edition completely revised for E-Prime 3 * Based on 10+ years of teaching E-Prime to undergraduates, postgraduates, and colleagues * Used by Psychology Software Tools to train their own staff!

Cover
Title
Copyright
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
- What is E-Prime and what will I learn?
- Why should I learn E-Prime?
- Online support
Chapter I: E-Prime at a glance
- E-Studio, E-DataAid, E-Recovery and E-Merge
- Object Oriented Programming
- Conceptualising an experiment
- The structure of E-Studio
- E-Objects
- Procedures, Lists and TextDisplays
- The TextDisplay Object
- Tutorial I: A simple RT experiment
- Exercises
- Additional Exercises
Chapter II: List Attributes and Slides
- Experimental design in E-Prime
- More on Lists
- The ImageDisplay object: Showing an image
- The Slide Object: Showing multiple images and layers of texts
- The FeedbackDisplay Object
- Tutorial II: The Simon Task
- Exercises
- Tutorial III: Implicit Association Task
- Exercises
- Tutorial IV: Use of a questionnaire to predict implicit attitudes from political leaning
- Exercises
- Additional Exercises
Chapter III: Sound, movies, hardware, and nested Lists
- SoundOut objects and digital audio
- SoundOut Objects
- Digital audio
- MovieDisplay object
- Wait object
- Labels
- Changing properties of E-Objects
- Experiment properties
- Nested Lists
- Counterbalancing and between-subject manipulations
- Advanced nested Lists: Permutation and the colon syntax
- Tutorial V: Visual search and distracting sound
- Exercises
- Tutorial VI: Sequential task paradigm
- Exercises
- Tutorial VII: Long term emotional memory task
- Exercises
- Additional Exercises
Chapter IV: Beginning programming in E-Prime
- E-Basic in E-Prime
- Different types of variables
- Mathematical operators
- Mathematical functions
- Combining numbers and text
- String functions
- Linking variables to input/output windows
- Linking variables to attributes
- InLines everywhere
- Tutorial VIII: A working memory test
- Exercises
- Additional Exercises
Chapter V: Decision making in E-Basic
- The If-Then statement
- Combining conditional expressions
- Comparing values
- How to terminate parts of your experiment
- Tutorial IX: The Ultimatum game
- Tutorial X: The Cyberball game
- Exercises
- Additional Exercises
Chapter VI: Loops and Arrays in E-Basic
- Looping with Labels
- The For-Next Loop
- Loops with conditional expressions
- Lists and Arrays
- Arrays of a user-defined data type
- Tutorial XI: Quasi-random trial selection
- Exercises
- Additional Exercises
Chapter VII: Interactions between Slide objects and the Mouse
- The Slide object
- Accessing the mouse in E-Prime
- Programming user interactions
- Tutorial XII: A simple questionnaire
- Tutorial XIII: A mouse tracking task
- Tutorial XIV: Embodied cognition, political leaning and Stroop featuring buttons
- Exercises
- Additional Exercises
Chapter VIII: Various Input/Output devices
- The Serial Response Box
- The Chronos
- Voice key experiments
- Sending signals using the parallel port
- How to send signals
- Reading and writing text files
- Tutorial XV: Making a Voice Key (VK) test program
- Exercises
- Additional Exercises
References
Appendix: Overview of available E-Objects
About the authors
Index