Repeating a trial (sequence) before proceeding to the next one
Hello everyone!
I've tried searching for a solution to my problem, but was unsuccessful.
Apart from creating the experiment which is a part of the beginner tutorial, I have no experience with creating experiments whatsoever and I'm trying to create a cognitive experiment.
I laid out the basic structure of my experiment in the program, but I'm having trouble with some “advanced things”.
Is it possible to repeat a single trial (or trial sequence) before proceeding to the next one?
My participants should give an intuitive answer to a presented question, asses their feeling of rightness (initial judgment of confidence) on a scale, see the question presented on a screen once more, give their final answer and assess their final confidence (final judgment of confidence). I should present them with 20 different tasks.
Basically, what I'm trying to achieve is: TASK - INITIAL JUDGMENT OF CONFIDENCE - REPEATED TASK - FINAL JUDGMENT OF CONFIDENCE and then NEXT TASK - INITIAL JUDGMENT OF CONFIDENCE, etc. (20 times in total).
I've tried using repeat_cycle plugin, but it didn't yield the results I was looking for.
I am really sorry for my newbie questions and I have many more of them. ☹️ Do I start a new thread if I don't find what I'm searching for or do I post my future questions in this thread?
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I figured it out on my own. :D
Now I don't know how to delete this thread.
@Tam - how did you do it? I am looking to do the exact same thing and I can't make it happen!
Are you logging the 3 responses independently?
Would be grateful for any pointers... I'm at the point of despair! ;)
Thanks
Ali
@AliW I hope my explanation will be understandable enough. Yes, I am logging responses independently. There are actually four of them. Two serve as answers to the presented questions and the other two represent judgments of confidence.
This is what I did.
It runs as a single trial. It looks longish because the task has to be presented in three steps. As you can notice, the sketchpad and keyboard_response objects are linked. Only those representing FOR (feeling of rightness) and FC (final confidence) are mutually independent.
I'm sure there must be a simpler way to achieve the same result, but this will do for me for the time being.
Hope my point came across clear enough. :D
@Tam thank you so much! That made perfect sense! I ended up using a combination of your solution and from @hulya on this thread https://forum.cogsci.nl/discussion/comment/19974#Comment_19974.
Thank you very much to both of you - after avoiding it for a week I have finally made it work! :D THANK YOU!
(I know its not a pretty solution, but I'll leave it here in case it helps/at least inspires anyone else!)