Memory recall task

Jess

Hi,

So I have to put together an experiment for an assignment - my group decided to replicate a memory recall task where participants are presented with a sequence of words - one of which being in a different colour. The aim is to test whether that word is remembered more often than the other words. It's my first time using Opensesame and although I have started to understand the basics i'm still clueless as to how I would make this experiment work.

Could I use text input for the participant's response and if so how does the logger work with this type of input? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I have a hit a wall with this experiment and have no idea how to continue.

Thanks in advance.

sebastiaan

Hi Jess,

Could I use text input for the participant's response and if so how does the logger work with this type of input?

The first option that comes to mind is to use a form_text_input item to let participants freely enter their response. Then you can specify the name of a variable, say memory_response , and then the logger will simply log the response under that name.

Does that clear things up?

Cheers!

Sebastiaan

Jarrodhollis

Thanks for this question and response as I am working on a similar thing.

I am wondering if this could be adapted such that you apply code to determine if the participant input response is correct and if it is create a score of the total correct responses.

I am assuming that you would use code in an inline script incorporating an If statement with conditions??

sebastiaan

Hi Jarrod,

You can make use of the responses object. Say that the form saves the response as memory_response and you have defined the correct response as correct_response , then the following script should do the trick:

responses.add(
    response=var.memory_response,
    correct=1 if var.memory_response == var.correct_response else 0
)

This should be in the Run phase of an inline_script .

See also:

• https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.3/manual/python/responses/

Cheers!

Sebastiaan