Chapter 1 Overview

All experiments contain four essential parts:

For in-person experiments, the four components are:

  • Building: experiment building program (i.e., MATLAB, PsychoPy)
  • Hosting: usually carried out in a lab
  • Consent: paper consent form that is given to participants before they begin
  • Recruitement: place where we find participants (e.g URPP)

For online experiment, those same four components are replaced by different websites that does each respective job:

  • Building: experiment building program (i.e., PsychoPy)
  • Hosting: website to host the experiment (i.e, Pavlovia)
  • Consent: consent form integrated through experiment or survey website (i.e., PsychoPy or Qualtrics)
  • Recruitment: website to recruite participants from (e.g. URPP, Prolific)

This webpage will go over the steps needed to create a smooth transition from recruiting participants online, redirecting them to sign the consent form and complete the experiment, and then finally bringing them back to the recruitment site to provide automatic compensation.