Self versus Change (versus Y) = SvCvY

This task is a generalizable implementation of the self versus change task used in the DSN lab. Users respond 'Yes' or 'No' to a series of words. In the default task, they are asked to judge whether a word describes them (Yes or No), and in other blocks, whether the word describes a trait that can change.

You should be able to specify a JxK factorial paradigm where J is the number of different prompts (Self, Change, Y...) and K is the number of different word types. For example, you may have words that are trait adjectives related to both extraversion and neuroticism.

Setup

In order to get this project going, you need to supply a task design file created by the GA algorithm in task/design/optSVCtor.m, which produces a file that looks like the one in task/design/GAoutput/torSVCdesignEXAMPLE.mat, and a list of trait words like the one in task/design/materials/svcTraitsEXAMPLE.txt.

1. Open and edit and set options in task/design/makeSVCdesigns.m, and then run it
2. Run task/design/makeSVCstimulus.m (more on this coming soon)
3. Add task/code to your matlab path
4. You must run the following from svc/task
5. Run getSubInfo() on the matlab command line
   • it will ask you to select the study folder -- this will be the svc/ folder in which you find task/, SVCstim.mat, and this file, README.md.
6. Run runSVC() on the matlab command line

~/task

Contains code and input text to run experiments, design info/materials, task output

All code is in psych-toolbox-3, often run on OS X using MATLAB_R2014b

Make sure to add the folders in ~/task to the MATLAB search path. To wit, you can do:

addpath(genpath('~/task'));

SVC authors: wem3, jflournoy, dcos
edited: 16-03-24