Courtney,
This task was submitted by a contributor, and I did not design it
myself. The developer had a performance criterion on the task, so that
if you could not make it past a certain level on the single-task, you
did not get to go to the dual task. This would be a standard criterion
for performance.
I have relaxed this myself when running the symspan task. To do so,
you need to idet the readingspan.pbl file with a text editor like
notepad++.
Go to the lines 1029-1036, which read :
if (
gRequireThresholdPreBattery == 1 and pctCorrect < gBatteryThreshold )
{
abort <- 1 } else {
distract_timeout <- Mean(
gTimesDistract ) distrac
t_timeout <- distract_timeout + gDistractTimeoutMultiplier * StdDev(
gTimesDistract ) distrac
t_timeout<- Max( [distract_timeout, gDistractTimeoutMinimum ] )
}
replace them with the following: if ( 1)
{
distract_timeout <-
Mean( gTimesDistract )
distract_timeout <-
distract_timeout + gDistractTimeoutMultiplier * StdDev( gTimesDistract
)
distract_timeout<- Max(
[distract_timeout, gDistractTimeoutMinimum ] )
}
This should then skip over the code that determines whether the
criteria have not been met.
Shane
On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 14:45 +0000, Courtney Parent wrote:
> To Whom it May Concern:
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>
> Hello, my name is Courtney Parent and I am a research assistant at
> the University of New England. I recently downloaded and installed
> PEBL on a lab computer for the use of the reading span task for a
> research study I
> will be conducting this upcoming fall.
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> I attempted taking the reading span task to see what our participants
> would be seeing as they're completing the task. During the middle of
> the task, the screen contains a window that says, "[Test cannot
> proceed - not
> meeting distract threshold]". I hit the "OKAY" button at the bottom
> of the screen and I am unable to click anything on the Launcher page.
> There is also a pop-up window that says, "Error near line 1042 of
> file .\readingspan.pbl: Exiting Experiment because threshold
> not met."
>
>
>
> Please let me know what needs to be done to fix this issue.
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> Thank you, and I look forward to hearing back.
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> Courtney Parent
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> Psychology Major
> MHRT/C Minor
> University of New England Class of 2019
> Research Assistant to Dr. Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour
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> http://blog.une.edu/sbcoglab/
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