Psychopy Extra Exercises

On the first day of the boot camp, we created a mental rotation experiment (or the main components). This would work fine, but it could be improved. Here I leave you with a list of things you could try to do by yourself. Some of these exercises will require some Google-ing, so don’t worry if you get stuck. I have left a complete builder file on GitHub so that you can download it and check my solution (unfortunately, it’s not straightforward to add Psychopy builder elements here).

E1

Add a “Press space bar to continue” text underneath each instruction slide

E2

Add a thank you slide at the end of the experiment

E3

Make the experiment run 100 trials in a random order (each trial is presented twice during a session)

E4

Add a countdown from 5 to 0 between the instructions and the trial routine (hint)

E5

Add a square box around each of the two letters. Make it white. (hint: is there a way to set a colour opacity? If not, what colour is the background? Remember that the order of the components matters!)