E-Prime Research Scripts

From - http://step.psy.cmu.edu/scripts/

These are sample scripts, replicating classic, unique, or interesting studies in experimental psychology. They are intended both to demonstrate the results of the studies and to show what E-Prime can do as an experiment generation framework. They are free to download, though we ask that you credit this project if you use them in a public context. Scans of articles are only to be viewed on the browser in the context of fair use and not distributed. Thanks to Yanping Dong and her students at Guangzhou Foreign Studies University for reentering and rechecking the text of 20 of the classic studies.
We also have some scripts that were submitted to us but not credited to particular authors. These are listed on two separate pages:
1. Common experimental paradigms such as n-back, Iowa Gambling, etc.
2. Student submissions, from students in Research Methods at CMU.
Click on experiment names to find out more information and to download the scripts. If you would like to see a list of scripts with no explanations or supporting materials, look at the Script List, or if you would like to download the entire experiment set without supporting materials, download the whole STEP experiment set (54 MB).
Categorical List
Disclaimer on Software VersionScript CreditsBack to System for Teaching Experimental Psychology
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Baddeley - Acoustic Similarityacoustic confusability in working memory
Baranski and Petrusic 1994 - The calibration and resolution of confidence in perceptual judgementsoverconfidence in motor performance
Baranski and Petrusic 1995 - Calibration of Knowledge and Perceptionconfidence in motor performance versus general knowledge
Bilodeau, Bilodeau, and Schumsky 1959 - Some effects of introducing and withdrawing knowledge of results early and late in practiceknowledge of results
Boland, Tanenhaus, and Garnsey 1990 - Evidence for the immediate use of verb control information in sentence processingverb control information
Bower 1972 - Mental imagery and associative learningpaired-associate learning and imagery
Bransford and Franks 1971 - The abstraction of linguistic ideasschema-based memory
Brewer 1977 - Memory for the pragmatic implications of sentencespragmatic implications
Broadbent 1954 - The role of auditory localization in attention and memory span
Brown 1958 - Some tests of the decay theory of immediate memoryduration of primary memory
Clark and Chase 1972 - On the process of comparing sentences against picturessentence-picture verification
Conrad 1964 - Acoustic confusions in immediate memoryacoustic confusions
Conway and Engle 1996 - Individual differences in working memory capacitygeneral capacity theory
Cooper and Shepard 1973 - Time required to prepare for a rotated stimulusmental rotation
Craik and Tulving 1975 - Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memorydepth of processing
Craik and Watkins 1973 - The role of rehearsal in short-term memoryretention does not guarantee storage
Eriksen and St. James 1986 - Visual attention within and around the field of focal attentiontime-course of selective visual attention
Flowers, Warner, and Polansky 1979 - Response and encoding factors in "ignoring" irrelevant informationnumber stroop
Foertsch and Gernsbacher 1997 - In search of gender neutralitygender-neutral prounoun use
Garner 1970 - Good patterns have few alternativesthe aesthetics of "figure goodness"
Glushko 1979 - The organization and activation of orthographic knowledge in reading aloudgang effects in reading
Gray and Wedderburn 1960 - Grouping strategies with simultaneous stimulidivision of attention between the ears
Green and Swets - Signal detection theory and psychophysicssignal detection theory
Grosjean 1996 - Gatinggating paradigm
Hamilton, Katz, and Leirer 1980 - Cognitive representation of personality impressionsimpression formation versus memory task instructions
Helson and Bevan 1964 - An investigation of variables of judgments of relative areaadaptation-level theory in a relative size illusion
Higgins, Rholes, and Jones 1977 - Category Accessibility and Impression Formationpriming of impression formation
Hyman 1953 - Stimulus information as a determinant of reaction timeHick-Hyman Law
Jacoby 1983 - Perceptual enhancement: Persistent effects of an experienceimplicit memory
Johnston and Schwarting 1996 - Reassessing the Evidence for Novel Popoutpop-out theories
Just, Carpenter, and Wooley 1982 - Paradigms and Processes in Reading Comprehensionmoving window paradigm in reading
Kirkpatrick 1894 - An experimental study of memoryserial position effects
Klapp 1988 - Multiple resources for processing and storage in short-term working memoryHuman Factors workload
Koriat, Lichtenstein, and Fischhoff 1980 - Reasons for Confidenceoverestimation of knowledge
Kosslyn 1976 - Can imagery be distinguished from other forms of internal representation?mental imagery
Kramer and Hahn 1995 - Splitting the beamsplitting the beam of attention
Luchins and Luchins 1950 - New experimental attempts at preventing mechanization in problem solvingmental set and operations
Lukatela and Turvey 1994a - Visual lexical analysis is initially phonological: 1. phonological processes in reading
Lukatela and Turvey 1994b - Visual lexical analysis is initially phonological: 2. phonological processes in reading
Lupiáñez, et. al. 1997 - Does IOR occur in discrimination tasks?inhibition of return (IOR)
McCollough 1965 - Color adaptation of edge-detectors in the human visual systemMcCollough effect
McDonald 1993 - The interaction of lexical and syntactic ambiguitynoun-adjective ambiguities
MacWhinney et al. 2000 - Online measures of basic language skills in children with early focal brain lesionslanguage in children with focal brain lesions
MacWhinney-Bates - Identifying the actor in pseudosentencesMacWhinney-Bates identification task
Meyer and Schvaneveldt 1971 - Facilitation in recognizing pairs of wordsspreading lexical activation
Navon 1977 - Forest before treesprocessing global and local features
Neisser 1964 - Visual searchvisual search
Paivio 1965 - Abstractness, imagery, and meaningfulness in paired-associate learningimagery in paired-associate learning
Palermo and Eberhart 1968 - On the learning of morphological rulesanalogy for learning morphological rules
Pashler 1992 - Attentional limitations in doing two tasks at the same timebottleneck effects
Perfetti, Bell, and Delaney 1988 - Automatic (prelexical) phonetic activation in silent word readingautomatic phonological processing during reading
Peterson and Peterson 1959 - Short-term retention of individual verbal itemsrecall of individual items
Poffenberger 1912 - Reaction time to retinal stimulation with special reference to the time lost in conduction through nerve centerscrossed-uncrossed difference in reaction time
Posner and Keele 1968 - On the genesis of abstract ideascreation of category prototypes
Posner and Mitchell 1967 - Chronometric analysis of classificationsubtractive analysis of levels of processing
Posner, Snyder, and Davidson 1980 - Attention and the detection of signalsspatial cueing
Ramachandran 1992 - Blind spotsthe filling-in of blind spots in vision
Roediger and McDermott 1995 - Creating false memoriesfalse memories
Rumelhart and McClelland 1982 - An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: Part 2.perceiving letters within words
Santee and Egeth 1982 - Reaction time and accuracymeasuring reaction time and accuracy
Schiffman 1982 - visual illusions
Schneider and Shiffrin 1977 - Controlled and automatic human information processing: I.automaticity
Shapiro, Raymond, and Arnell 1994 - Attention to visual pattern information produces the attentional blink in rapid serial visual presentationattentional blink
Sperling 1960 - The information available in brief visual presentationsiconic visual memory
Sternberg 1966 - High speed scanning in human memoryscanning through working memory
Stroop 1935 - Studies of interference in serial verbal reactionsautomaticity in reading
Thomson and Tulving 1970 - Associative encoding and retrievalassociative encoding of words
Tipper 1985 - The negative priming effectnegative priming
Treisman and Gelade 1980 - A feature-integration theory of attentionsearch for features
Tulving and Pearlstone 1966 - Availability versus accessibility of information in memory for wordsavailability versus accessibility in memory for words
Warren and Warren 1970 - Auditory illusions and confusionsauditory illusions
Waugh and Norman 1965 - Primary memorydecay vs. interference
Weldon and Roediger 1987 - Altering retrieval demands reverses the picture superiority effectpicture superiority effect
Welford 1968Fitt's Law
Wickens 1972 - Characteristics of word encodingrelease from proactive inhibition
Yantis 1993 - Stimulus-driven attentional capture and attentional control settings stimulus-driven involuntary capture of attention