FAQ

Q1. What is Inquisit?

Inquisit is easy to use programming environment created by Millisecond Software. Inquisit is devoted to everyone interesting in creating computer based experiments and surveys.

More details you can find on Inquisit website


Q2. What can I do with Inquisit?

You can create computerized experiments and conduct them online or offline.

Inquisit offers you library of classic psychological experiments, you can shape them as you want by changing scripts - this is really amazing.


Q3. Is Inquisit free of charge?

NO

Millisecond Software offers you 30 days free full Inquisit trial, after this period you should buy license and register your copy, otherwise your Inquisit copy stops saving data from experiments you run.

A lot of universities and schools around the world cooperate with Millisecond, so maybe your institution may offer free licence for you.


Q4. What is Inquisit Course website?

Inquisit Course is a blog about introduction to programming in Inquisit.

Inquisit Course website has been created in educational purpose to help people without prior programming experience to start programming their own experiments in Inquisit.

Inquisit Course website is not related to Millisecond Software in any way.


Q5. Do I need this site? 

No, you do not need it.

There is a lot of amazing support for someone who wants to start using Inquisit (see Q6).

However, when I started learning to create experiments in Inquisit, I found some issues difficult to overcome by using only Inquisit tutorial and forum information. So I decided to create this page with some introduction tips which may help you better understand how inquisit works.

Q6.What are other possibile way to learn how to program in Inqusit?

Inqusit 4 WebHelp - User guide

Library of classic psychological experiments - download experiment that you know and step by step analyze script, try to figure out how it works. Press F1 to find additional information about particular script's elements.

Millisecond Forum - you can post a question and millsecond answers you


Q7. What are other possibile way to program psychological experiments?

You can try:

PsychoPy

e-prime

or learn one of the programming languages at:

Codeacademy