The E-Primer : An Introduction to Creating Psychological Experiments in E-Prime®

"E-Prime® is the leading software suite by Psychology Software Tools for designing and running Psychology lab experiments. The E-Primer is the perfect accompanying guide: It provides all the necessary knowledge to make E-Prime accessible to everyone. You can learn the tools of Psychological science by following the E-Primer through a series of entertaining, step-by-step recipes that recreate classic experiments. The updated E-Primer expands its proven combination of simple explanations, interesting tutorials and fun exercises, and makes even the novice student quickly confident to create their dream experiment. Featuring: \* Learn the basic and advanced features of E-Studio’s flexible user interface \* 15 step-by-step tutorials let you replicate classic experiments from all Psychology fields \* Learn to write custom code in E-Basic without having any previous experience in programming \* Second edition completely revised for E-Prime 3 \* Based on 10+ years of teaching E-Prime to undergraduates, postgraduates, and colleagues \* Used by Psychology Software Tools to train their own staff!" E-Prime®, the software suite of Psychology Software Tools, is used worldwide for designing and running custom psychology experiments. Aimed at students and researchers alike, this timely volume provides a much needed, down-to-earth introduction into the wide range of experiments that can be set up using E-Prime®. Many tutorials are provided to introduce the beginner and reacquaint the experienced researcher with constructing experiments typical for the broad field of psychological and cognitive science. Apart from explaining the basic structure of E-Prime® and describing how it suits daily scientific practice, this book also gently introduces programming via E-Prime's own language: E-Basic. The authors guide the readers through the software step by step, from an elementary level to an advanced level, enabling them to benefit from the enormous possibilities E-Prime® provides for experimental design Table of Contents Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter I: E- Prime at a glance Chapter II: List Attributes and Slides Chapter III: Sound, movies, hardware, and nested Lists Chapter IV: Beginning programming in E- Prime Chapter V: Decision making in E-Basic Chapter VI: Loops and Arrays in E-Basic Chapter VII: Interactions between Slide objects and the Mouse Chapter VIII: Various Input/Output devices References Appendix: Overview of available E-Objects About the authors Index