Tasks created for Psychology students at Nottingham Trent University to use in research methods classes. These tasks are free and open for anybody to use and adapt as they see fit. Any questions, please refer to russell.turk02@ntu.ac.uk
Tasks and questionnaires are created and curated by staff at Nottingham Trent University and are provided 'as is' and any code is utilised at your own risk.
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A sample participant information sheet, including consent boxes, for a simple experimental task collecting anonymised reaction time data.
The information sheet cannot be used 'as is' and should be edited to reflect the study it is being adapted for.
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A simple 'whack-a-mole' style task where participants are instructed to click (or tap) on a target as it appears in one of eight locations.
This task measures participant reaction time and accuracy in order to assess learning of implicit sequences/patterns. Originally designed for statistical learning research, the task also includes calculated transitional probabilities and frequencies for each trial as metadata.
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A short example task in which participants are required to indicate which of two stimuli they have seen before (faces, in this case). This task would usually follow a familiarisation and distractor task to form a complete experiment.
This type of task can be used to measure recognition accuracy or reaction time to determine the effect of different variables on participants' ability to recognise previously ncountered stimuli. Adding a condition column to the spreadsheet as metadata will be useful when preparing your data for analysis.
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A short example task in which participants are asked whether the recognise a displayed stimulus from a separate familiarisation task by clicking either yes or no. This task can be used to examine the effects of one or more manipulations on recognition accuracy or response time and should be combined with a familiarisation and distraction task to complete the experiment.
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A short example task that presents participants with a string of stimuli on a timer. This task would be paired with a testing task - such as the 2AFC or old-new tasks elsewhere on this page - in order show stimuli from one or more conditions.
The example uses faces, but could easily be adapted for use with any type of stimuli.
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A simple example of how you can set up a rating task to examine the effect of one or more variables on participants' perception of a given attribute, in this case, attractiveness.
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A simple distraction task for use with recall/recognition experiments. Participants are asked to count backwards from three-hundred in increments of three for a set amount of time.
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Participants are asked to rate twenty vignettes for appropriateness using a sliding scale. Participants are then shown some priming text and given an attention check before being asked to rate a further twenty vignettes.
There are no stimuli included in this task.
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