Pymetrics Games Pymetrics Games 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), what happens if you pump a balloon past its breaking point?
- You earn double points for the round
- You lose all earnings accumulated for that balloon (Correct answer)
- The game ends immediately
- You receive a warning but keep your points
Correct answer: You lose all earnings accumulated for that balloon
Bursting a balloon means you lose all coins banked for that specific balloon round.
Question 2: Which Pymetrics game specifically measures your ability to inhibit a prepotent response when a stop signal appears?
- Tower of London
- Stop Signal Task (Correct answer)
- Keypress Task
- Card Sort Task
Correct answer: Stop Signal Task
The Stop Signal Task measures response inhibition by requiring you to stop a keypress when a stop signal appears.
Question 3: In Pymetrics' Money Exchange Game 1, Player A sends money to Player B and it triples. What does this game primarily measure?
- Math calculation speed
- Trust and willingness to cooperate (Correct answer)
- Risk tolerance under time pressure
- Memory for numerical sequences
Correct answer: Trust and willingness to cooperate
The Money Exchange Game 1 (Trust Game) measures interpersonal trust by seeing how much money you're willing to send to a stranger.
Question 4: The Faces Game in Pymetrics asks you to identify emotions. Which trait does strong performance in this game correlate with?
- Analytical reasoning
- Emotional intelligence and empathy (Correct answer)
- Pattern recognition speed
- Long-term memory retention
Correct answer: Emotional intelligence and empathy
The Faces Game assesses emotional intelligence by measuring how accurately you identify emotions from facial expressions.
Question 5: In the Arrows Game, you must press the key matching the direction of the CENTER arrow, ignoring flanking arrows. What cognitive ability does this test?
- Working memory capacity
- Selective attention and cognitive control (Correct answer)
- Spatial navigation
- Verbal processing speed
Correct answer: Selective attention and cognitive control
The Arrows Game (Eriksen Flanker Task) measures selective attention by testing whether you can focus on a central target while ignoring distractors.
Question 6: How many games does a typical Pymetrics assessment contain?
- 5 games
- 7 games
- 12 games (Correct answer)
- 20 games
Correct answer: 12 games
A standard Pymetrics assessment includes 12 games, each lasting a few minutes for a total of about 25-30 minutes.
Question 7: In the Digit Span Game, sequences of numbers are shown and then you must recall them. What does this measure?
- Processing speed
- Working memory capacity (Correct answer)
- Risk appetite
- Emotional regulation
Correct answer: Working memory capacity
The Digit Span Game measures working memory capacity by testing how many digits you can hold and accurately recall.
Pymetrics Games Pymetrics Games 2
In the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), what happens if you pump a balloon past its breaking point?