Background
If you do an online experiment, you will still need to do a survey as well. Thus, an online cognitive experiment always has survey question, such as about the age of the participant. This examples shows how to combine a survey and experiment.
If you are running a student project in which you want to collect data, it is easiest to embed the experiment in a survey. That way, all the data files of individual participants will be saved for you automatically, and you can download them anytime you want. |
Preparation
For this survey, you need an experiment. In this case, we will call it my_simon_task, and the other examples show how to program it.
Code
The survey is very simple.
Example
l: age t: range q: What is your age? - {min=18,max=65} Select your age: l: handedness t: radio q: Are you left or right handed? Or maybe both? - I am left handed - I am right handed - I use both hands equally l: simontask t: experiment q: Please follow the instructions... - my_simon_experiment l: distraction t: check q: Please check all the types of distractions you experienced during the Simon task. Select none if there were no distractions. - Somebody started talking to me - My phone rang - There was a lot of background noise here in the coffee shop - Some distraction not listed here
See it in action
There is an online survey of the Simon task, but with more details: http://psytoolkit.gla.ac.uk/simon/