[solved] How to make a loop landomly?

Yunjoo

Hello!

My name is Yunjoo.

My major is linguistics.

First of all, thank you for your software, OpenSesame. It is very helpful!!!

I am trying to make a Korean sentence processing experiment. And I have a question.

In my experiment, I will show sentences composed of 2 ~ 4 words in one sequence.

For example,

1) fixation dot -> I -> love -> you -> fixation dot -> target word

2) fixation dot -> I -> slept -> fixation dot -> target word

I have 30 sentences per conditoin which is written in 2 ~ 4 words.

So, I want to show the sentence landomly to subjects, like 4 words sentence and then 2 word sentence...so on.

However, still I only know the sequence which is fixed only 3 or 4 or 2.

So I can show 4 words sequence at first (30 sentences) after 2 words sequence (30 sentences) like this.

And I have tried the mixed condition as like the picture 1.

In this case, it is too difficult to figure out the result, I mean in the excel.

Can you suggest any better way than what I made?

Thank you for your reading.

Sincerly,

sebastiaan

Hi Yunjoo,

First of all, thank you for your software, OpenSesame. It is very helpful!!!

Thanks and you're welcome!

If I understand correctly, your question is how you can mix various-length sentences in the simplest way possible. Is that right? You already know how to implement a blocked situation, in which all sentences have the same length. But you are unsure how to implement a mixed situation.

What I would do is add a variable (n_words) that indicates how long each sentence is. Like this:

And then you can simply use run-if statements to execute only the sketchpads that you actually want to show. Like this: (Screenshot is from 2.9.0. OpenSesame 2.8.3 looks a little different, but the principle is the same.)

See? Easy peasy.

Cheers,
Sebastiaan

Yunjoo

OMG!!!

I am so surprised!!!
First, you understand my intention
Second, you solve the problem!!!

I will do that now
Thanks you so much