Joe -
I don't have any experience with modern versions of the Crutchfield
apparatus.
If your campus has a network with PCs running Windows, it's feasible to have
several PCs talking simultaneously to an Access database (that resides on a
single PC). A few years ago, I wrote a quiz program that would do this*
using Visual Basic to develop the student interface; that way, I controlled
the screen (no minimizable window, just full-screen) and the program flow
(no way out short of using Ctrl-Alt-Del). I think such an approach would be
practical for the kind of study you describe. One advantage is that the data
all get recorded automatically to a format that is Excel/SAS/SPSS friendly.
I'm sure such a thing could be developed for the Mac, but I haven't done it
so can't describe how it would be done.
Cheers,
Michael Renner
*I was working with Catherine Hackett Renner on a study of teaching students
to be better calibrated in judging their mastery of course content, and we
needed to assess the effect of having students report their confidence in
their answers and get feedback one question at a time. (It worked to
increase their performance, by the way, but that's a different story.)
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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:34:54 -0500
From: "Hatcher, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modern day Asch apparatus
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Hello Tipsters,
I do conformity research, and our department has come into a little
money. We actually have some old Lafayette equipment that allows us to
collect responses from several subjects at a time, with the experimenter
inserting false responses at will (for those in the know, this is the
Crutchfield modification of the Asch studies). However, this old stuff
doesn't work very well, and probably should be junked (or put in a museum?).
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone out there has any experience with more
modern versions of the Crutchfield apparatus. I suspect that four computers
could be networked to produce the same result, but hope that someone has
actually done something like this. If so, please let me know.
Joe
Joe W. Hatcher, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Ripon College
Ripon, WI 54971 USA
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Michael J. Renner
Department of Psychology
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
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