Class 11 — Final Project: Design & Pitch

The first of three final-project classes. You’ll tour PsychoPy components beyond Text and Keyboard, pitch a novel task idea, and leave with a written one-page design plan, no building yet.

Today you stop practicing on the original Stroop task and start designing a novel task entirely your own, but today is design and pitch only, no building. You’ll restate the task design constraint, get a tour of PsychoPy components beyond Text and Keyboard, sketch and refine a task idea with a partner, and pitch it in a short instructor check-in. Unlike the original task’s piloting, your final project’s data will be simulated rather than collected from outside participants. Class 12 includes exactly one in-class debugging pilot with a partner, purely to confirm the task runs, but nothing from it gets kept or analyzed. You’ll leave today with a written one-page design plan, not a started .psyexp file.

Reading due: — · Due the night before (Mon 11/23, 11:59 PM): HW6

What you’ll be able to do

1. Restate the project design constraint — 1 manipulated factor with exactly 2 levels, up to 2 dependent variables, minimum 18 observations per level — and apply it to evaluate whether your own novel task idea fits.
2. Identify which PsychoPy components beyond Text and Keyboard (Image, Sound, Slider) might suit your own novel task, and know where to find worked examples if you need one.
3. Pitch a novel 1-factor/2-level task idea, refine it through peer discussion and a short instructor check-in, and incorporate that feedback before committing build time to it.
4. Produce a written one-page design plan describing the manipulation, the two levels, the dependent variable(s), a target trial count, needed stimuli, and a rough routine list.
5. Explain why the final project’s data will be simulated, and what that means for how you build the task.