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Welcome to psiTurk's documentation. To start, you'll first need to install psiTurk. Instructions can be found on the Getting psiTurk installed on your computer page. Afterwards, head over to Quickstart, or for a more detailed tutorial demonstrating how to setup a simple experiment with psiTurk, visit Up and running with the Stroop task.

User's Guide

• Foreword
  • The psiTurk design philosophy: An analogy
  • What is Mechanical Turk?
  • What is psiTurk?
  • How do I host a psiTurk experiment?
  • Do I have to learn to code?
  • What common issues arise?
• Getting psiTurk installed on your computer
  • Requirements
  • Install steps
  • System-specific notes
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Cloud (Experimental)
• Getting setup with Amazon Mechanical Turk
  • Obtaining AWS credentials
  • Creating a AMT Requester account
• Quickstart
• Step-by-step tutorials
  • Up and running with the basic Stroop task
  • Decomposing the Stroop task
• Anatomy of a project
  • config.txt
  • participants.db
  • server.log
  • exp.html
  • task.css
  • psiturk.js
  • task.js
  • utils.js
• Recording and saving data (Doug)
• Crediting participants (Jay)
  • Via dashboard
  • Via AMT site
  • How much should I pay?
• Basics and/or references on external libraries
  • JQuery
  • Underscore
  • Backbone
• FAQ

API Reference

• psiTurk API
  • Creating the psiTurk object
  • psiturk.taskdata
  • psiturk.preloadPages
  • psiturk.getPage
  • psiturk.showPage
  • psiturk.preloadImages
  • psiturk.recordTrialData
  • psiturk.recordUnstructuredData
  • psiturk.saveData
  • psiturk.finishInstructions
  • psiturk.teardownTask
• Routes
  • /inexp
  • etc...