Language Study
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Task
In this experiment you will be asked to answer a question given a specific context.
You have to choose between two possible answers.
Procedure
First I will ask you to enter some information about your person into a data window.
This data serves purely scientific purposes and will be treated anonymously.
All personal information will be deleted after the completion of the study. Before the experiment starts, there will be a practice phase.
Then the actual experiment starts.
Experiment: Decision Task
You will consecutively be shown a couple of sentences. Read the sentences carefully. Additionally, you will
be given two possible answers to the question "What happened?". Your task is to judge which of the possiblilites is the more correct one given the context sentences. Choose whatever options seems to be the correct one for you.
Here are some examples:
Sarah went grocery shopping yesterday. She bought tomatoes.
What happened?
John insulted Peter and then Peter shot John in the stomach.
What happened?
Final instructions
Choose the answer that best answers the question "What happened?"
With some examples, choosing the correct answer may be more difficult. Choose whatever seems more correct to you.
You are asked to rate 48 sentences and the experiment will take about 15 minutes.
Ready? Press "Continue"!
Progress: 1.9%
Experimenter: Lorenz Geiger , Universität Tübingen
Das Experiment wurde mit der freien Software OnExp_v.1.2 erstellt.