The potential of HyperCard for psychological research and instruction: A general discussion and description of two research applications

Geisler‐Brenstein, Elke; Brenstein, Robert J.

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“…It is worthwhile to note that the use of scripts in this testing application to constrain and limit the subject's passage through the testing stack represents a violation of the basic Hypercard "philosophy," which emphasizes the user's freedom in moving between cards and among stacks. HyperCard represents a powerful environment for creating and using psychologicalassessment tools (Geisler-Brenstein & Brenstein, 1989;Martin & Wilcox, 1989).…”

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Using HyperCard to administer a figural test on the Apple Macintosh

Schuldberg

Nichols²

1990

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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To date, applications of automated assessment techniques in personality testing have largely been limited to objective personality instruments with text stimuli; few assessment applications have involved graphic stimuli. Although projective personality instruments generally include ambiguous graphic or pictorial stimuli; computer applications with these procedures have been limited to automated scoring and interpretation, administration of sentence completion devices employing text stimuli; and the use of mechanical methods rather than computer graphics to display visual stimuli. In the present report, we describe a Macintosh HyperCard application for administering an objective personality test with visual stimuli; the Barron-Welsh Revised Art Scale of the Welsh Figure Preference Test. This test consists of a series of figural stimuli and a binary "like"l"dislike" response format, and it thus represents an administration procedure between standard objective self-report inventories involving text stimuli and a "true"l"false" response or variant, and tests such as the Rorschach or TAT that are both figural and free-response. The HyperCard language provides a variety ofpromising techniques useful for microcomputer test administration.To date, computer applications in psychological assessment have included pictorial stimuli only to a limited extent. Although computer graphics displays are used in psychologicalexperimentation and clinical neuropsychological testing, pictorial stimuli have met with limited application in automated personality assessment. It is likely that, in the future, increased use will be made of analogue test procedures or simulations, and demonstrations have already been developed in which CD-ROM storage devices have been employed in interactive analogue assessment and training.

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Using HyperCard to administer a figural test on the Apple Macintosh

Schuldberg

Nichols²

1990

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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“…The potential of HyperCard for psychological research has been described by Geisler-Brenstein and Brenstein (1989), who provide an excellent general description of the program and its potential for applications in psychological research. HyperTalk, the scripting language used to control HyperCard, is easily mastered with even a minimal knowledge of programming.…”

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A HyperCard program to track information-search strategies

Bourgeois

Castillo

1993

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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In our research program, we have recently attempted to test the impact of various procedural innovations on juries' decision making. In our most recent study, we wanted to determine whether or not allowing subjects to review evidence by accessing the trial transcripts after hearing the case would alter the decision-making process in any way (Bourgeois, Horowitz, & ForsterLee, 1993). For example, would subjects review the transcript in the same order in which the evidence was presented on audiotape, or would they review the information in some other systematic order, perhaps related to the difficulty or importance of the evidence?To address this question, we developed a HyperCard stack containing the trial transcript parsed into a number of informational chunks. This program allowed us to record the order in which the subjects reviewed the transcripts, as well as the amount of time spent reviewing specific components of the transcript. Prior research on decision making suggests that search strategies are influenced by a variety of factors. For example, Johnson (1988) has shown that experts and nonexperts use different search strategies during a decision-making task.Unfortunately, the methods used in many decisionmaking studies that have tracked information-search strategies generally have a number of traits that made them un-

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“…HyperCard has become a popular tool for researchers and teachers, who value its hypertext capabilities and the relative ease of programming in the HyperTalk language. This authoring software, supplied with every Macintosh computer since 1987, has been used to construct a variety of computer-based applications, such as a courseware stack on subjective contours and visual illusions (Dougherty, 1990); a hypermedia resource library for behavioral research (Ray & Mitchell, 1992); interactive tutorial stacks on person perception and attribution theory (petty & Rosen, 1991); tools for producing CAL software (Levidow, Hunt, & McKee, 1991;Martin & Growney, 1992); experiments in cognition (Tversky, 1990); administration of a blockdesign task (Martin & Wilcox, 1989); preparation, administration, and analysis oftests and surveys (Geisler-Brenstein & Brenstein, 1989); administration of figural tests (Schuldberg & Nichols, 1990); and research on topics such as problem solving (Blaye, Light, Joiner, & Sheldon, 1991;Carter & Walsh, 1992;Quinn, 1991), text processing (Nason & Zabrucky, 1988), response modality in a digitspan task (Martin & Allan, 1991), and tutoring systems (Lee, 1992). The range of tasks to which HyperCard has been applied is a testimonial to both the flexibility of the program itself and the ingenuity of its users.…”

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Using HyperCard and Apple events in a network environment: Collecting data from simultaneous experimental sessions

Hoffman

Macdonald

1993

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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HyperCard is a useful tool available to teachers and researchers who have access to Macintosh computers. Version 2.1 of HyperCard, in conjunction with the Macintosh Operating System 7, includes some significant new capabilities for users with multiple computers in a network, as is common in many teaching laboratories. This paper describes a HyperCard stack that allows users who wish to run HyperCard-based experiments on several computers simultaneously to conveniently retrieve experimental data from those remote computers onto one program, and to perform several other useful tasks in a computer network.

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The potential of HyperCard for psychological research and instruction: A general discussion and description of two research applications

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

Using HyperCard to administer a figural test on the Apple Macintosh

Using HyperCard to administer a figural test on the Apple Macintosh

A HyperCard program to track information-search strategies

Using HyperCard and Apple events in a network environment: Collecting data from simultaneous experimental sessions

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