Help Koli the koala and Octavia the octopus!

For 7-12 years old.

This study has two parts.
In the first, your child will help a Koala named Koli decide how similar pairs of items are. your child will see 50 pairs of images. For example, a cat and a traffic light, and rate the how similar are the two things.
At the end, your child will help an octopus named Octavia in rating their curiosity. They will see 40 pairs of images and will be asked to rate how curious are they about the relationship between the two things.

This study investigates what makes natural categories of things and whether the similairty affects curiosity. We are studying how children change their perceptions of similarity and curiosity as they get older. Studying how similarity between concepts will affect the curiosity about them is espicially interesting with children since we hypotheisze that this link relates to the formation of categories, which is potentially different between children and adults (who already have their categories formed).

20 minutes

The child needs to be visible at some point, and you will be paid only one voucher per child doing the experiment. We will email you a $5 Amazon.com gift card within a week.