The Universal Test (TUT) 

User-friendly program that collects classical data (text answers), results of rating tests (with scale with 2-9 different answers), measures time used for answering particular question, enables presenting (and rating) of images or sequences of images in formats .bmp or .jpg, including subliminal visual stimuli, computes raw scores for any number of composite (additive) factors.

Basically, the program is controlled by three files:  test.cfg file, the file with questions of the first part of the test (which proband answers by typing text to window and pressing Enter), and the file with questions of the second part of the test (which proband answers by pressing any numeric key 1-9)

The test.cfg file  contains following 9 lines:

instrcat1.txt (file with the text to be displayed in the beginning of  first part of the test)
instrcat2.txt (file with the text to be displayed in the beginning of  second part of the test)
instrcat3.txt (file with the text to be displayed in the end of the test)
results (name of an output file)
blooddonors01 (name of a particular data set) 
4 (number of questions in the first part of the test)
6 (number of questions in the second part of the test)
quest1.txt (name of a file with questions of the first part of the test)
cattelX.txt  (name of a file with questions of the second part of the test)

Format of the file with questions of the first part of the test (here otaz1.txt) is also simple -
each question or command is written on separate line, e.g.

First name:
Family name:
Sex:
Age:
What is on this picture? |gv17.bmp/1255|gv12.bmp/764|picaso.bmp| (sequence of images to be displayed with this question/time (in milliseconds) for displaying the image. Without the time, the image is displayed until the proband presses any numeric key)

The program displays a sequence of these questions and records answers of a proband and times necessary for the proband to answer each question. The program measures and records also  time used for the proband for reading the last instruction and starting the second part of the test by pressing Enter.

The format of the file with questions second part of the test is:

§03# (specifies a number of different answers to the first question, here 3) 
  1. I am very atractive: (first question)
1 yes  (first possible answer)
2 I am not sure(2nd possible answer)
3 no  (3rd possible answer)
1   (the number of a composite factor loaded with this particular question)
2  (value to be added to specified composite factor when the answer is “1”)
1  (value to be added to specified composite factor when the answer is “2”)
0  (value to be added to specified composite factor when the answer is “3”)
§03# (specifies a number of different answers to the first question, here 3)
  2. I am very dominant (second question)
1 yes  (first possible answer)
2 I am not sure(2nd possible answer)
3 no  (3rd possible answer)
1
1
0
0
odor18.bmp  (name of a file with an image to be displayed with this question)
§05# (specifies a number of different answers to the second question, here 5)
  5. 1 + 1 =
1 2
2 3.14   
3 17       
4 194
5 11009  
2
5
0
0
0
0
GV12.bmp/60|picaso.bmp/6|GV12.bmp/60|GV17.bmp (sequence of images to be displayed with this question/time (in milliseconds) for displaying the image. Without the time, the image is displayed until the proband presses any numeric key) 
$00# (end of file)

The results for all subjects tested on particular computer are written to output file, e.g. results.txt, which allows importing results of all subjects to, for example, Excel. The output files contains following data: Answer to question 1 (e.g. the first name of a proband); time used by proband to respond question 1; answer to question 2 (e.g. the family name of a proband);  time used by proband to respond question 2… answer to the last question of the first part of a test (e.g. age); time used by proband to respond the last question of the first part of the test; text: “Time to read instructions:”; time used by proband to read instructions; response to the first question of the second part of the test; time used by proband to respond this question; response to the second question of the second part of the test; time used by proband to respond this question; … response to the last question of the second part of the test; time used by proband to respond this question; factor1; the mean time used by proband to respond questions loading the factor 1; … factor31; the mean time used by proband to respond questions loading the factor 31;  All times are given in milliseconds and all data are separated with semicolons.

Authors: J Flegr and M. Šmíd

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