Admission requirements
MSc Psychology (research) students
Description
In this course, students get an introduction into the use of programming languages and standard packages for the programming of psychological experiments (using E-Prime) and surveys (using Qualtrics). This course also covers basic programming skills in E-Basic.
Course objectives
Students acquire basic skills in modifying existing, and creating new psychological experiments using E-Prime, E-Basic and Qualtrics.
At the end of this course you will:
Understand how to use the E-Prime user interface to program a simple psychological experiment
Have acquired skills to program a psychological experiment yourself
Know the elementary commands and statements used in E-Basic and understand how you can apply them in programming experiments
Have acquired skills to use Qualtrics for designing web surveys
Timetable
Experimentation I: Programming Psychological Experiments (2013-2014):
Mode of instruction
Lectures, student assignments, practical exercises
Assessment method
Programming an E-prime experiment within a certain time limit.
From January 1, 2006 the Faculty of Social Sciences has instituted the Ephorus system to be used by instructors for the systematic detection of plagiarism in students’ written work. Please see the information concerning fraud .
Blackboard
Information on blackboard.leidenuniv.nl
Reading list
Spapé M.M., Verdonschot, R.G., Van Dantzig, S., & van Steenbergen, H. (in preparation) The E-Primer: An introduction to creating psychological experiments in E-Prime. From September 2 on, a photocopy of this book will be available on cash payment at the “Secretariaat Cognitieve Psychologie” (2B07). More information TBA on Blackboard.
Contact information
Coordinator: dr. Henk van Steenbergen
Room 2B14
Phone 071-5273655
E-mail: <HvanSteenbergen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl>