Creating an E-Prime program Taken from the e-studio

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Creating an E-Prime programTaken from the
e-studio Getting Started guide
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What do we want the program to do?

• Blair Banaji (1996) stereotype priming
• Participants presented with a word (PRIME)
• Prime is stereotypically masculine/feminine
• Also Positive or negative
• Prime replaced by fixation and then followed by
  TARGET word (M/F name)
• Task to respond to name (1 if male, 9 if female)

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Structure of expt
Welcome to the experiment!
Set up run trials
PRIME
TARGET

Thanks Goodbye!
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E-Studio Elements
Procedure Acts as a timeline for events within
the experiment
List Contains all independent variables,
attributes, and stimuli as well as controls
sampling
Text Display Allows presentation of a full screen
of text
Image Display Allows presentation of images in
bitmap (.bmp) format
Slide Allows presentation of a combination of
text, images and/ or sound
Feedback Display Allows presentation of a
combination of text, images and/ or sound
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Workspace windows of the objects you are
working with will be opened here
Structure - An outline (hierarchical) of your
experiment
Toolbox
Properties Of object selected in Structure
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Create a Welcome Screen
4. Double-click on the object to open it
3. Rename the object as INSTRUCTIONS in the
Properties line
1. double-click SessionProc
2. Drag a TextDisplay from ToolBox to the
SessionProc Timeline
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Welcome to the Experiment. ltEntergtYou will see a
word followed by a fixation cross. You will then
be shown another (target) wordltEntergtltEntergtYour
task is to determine if the target word was a
male or female name.ltEntergt ltEntergt Press the 1
key for a male name and 9 for a female name.
ltEntergtltEntergt PRESS THE SPACEBAR TO BEGIN!
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1. Change the length of display for the
instructions to infinite
2. Add an Input device, so that participants can
press the spacebar to move on
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• Now create a Good-bye object
• Place this in the Session-Proc timeline to come
  after the INSTRUCTIONS object

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• Drag a list object from the toolbox to the
  SessionProc
• Rename it as BlockList
• Double-click the BlockList object

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1. Create a new Procedure called BlockProc
2. Type BlockProc in the Procedure column of the
   list object, press ltentergt
3. Say yes to creating the new Procedure
4. Say yes to making it the default for new
   objects
5. Close all the windows in the workspace (not the
   e-studio application

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1. Double-click on the BlockProc object in the
   structure
2. Drag a new list object to the timeline and rename
   it TrialList
3. Double-click on the TrialList object to open it

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1. Click the add attribute button

2. Specify the name of the attribute to be
PrimeGender 3. Select the default to be female
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Now add all these attributes

• PrimeType (positive)
• NameGender (female)
• CorrectAnswer (9)
• Prime (?)
• Target (Linda)

Double-Click the PROCEDURE column and specify the
default value to be TrialProc
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1. Create the TrialProc Procedure

2. Click the Add multiple levels tool button and
specify that you want to add seven levels This
gives you new levels wit the earlier specified
defaults filled in 3. Complete all the lines as
shown on the next screen
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TrialList properties and Procedure
1. Select the properties of the TrialList object
2. Select the SELECTION tab and change the
selection from Sequential to Random
3. Check that the Reset/Exit options are set to
display all samples
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Defining the TrialProc

1. Double-click the TrialProc in the Structure
   window
2. Drag a Text Display object from the toolbox to
   the TrialProc timeline and rename it Prime
3. Select the Properties and specify the duration to
   be 1000 milliseconds
4. Set the display to show the attribute you named
   Prime in the Trial List. To do that type Prime
   (exactly as shown)

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1. Drag another TextDisplay object onto the
   TrialProc timeline
2. Place it after the Prime
3. Rename it as Fixation
4. Type as the text to be displayed
5. It should be displayed for a 1000 milliseconds
   (default)

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1. Drag a third TextDisplay object to the
TrialProc timeline 2. Rename this as Target 3.
Set it to display the Target attribute
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1. Change the duration to infinite
2. Add an Input device (keyboard)
3. Add the allowable Reponses (19)
4. Specify that the Correct response is defined by
   the attribute CorrectAnswer
5. You will then get prompted to set Datalogging to
   Standard confirm this

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Giving Feedback

1. Drag the FeedbackDisplay object from the toolbox
   to the TrialProc timeline
2. In the properties find the InputObject name row
   and specify this as Target

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Defining the Feedback
To change any of the lines of the feedback,
single-click them. This selects them, and you can
then change them by selecting properties
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Finished!

1. Select the View Script option from the View menu
2. Generate your script
3. Then run your experiment