Is This One?

For 5-year-old children who speak English as a native language, and hear English at least 70% of the time overall.

Your child will watch short videos of simple shapes moving in a simple environment, and they will hear new words used to describe what they see. Then, your child will be asked whether these new words apply to actions taken by new shapes. Your child will provide a 'yes' or 'no' response, and there are no right or wrong answers.

From infancy, we pay attention to how people move around the world and what their goals are. We are interested in whether children use such prelinguistic intuitions to guess the meanings of new words that apply to people and their actions. We use very simple scenarios to try to isolate different properties of others’ actions that might intuitively draw children’s attention during word learning. The results from this study will help us understand how children learn new words that describe the world around them.

15 minutes

We will email you a $5 gift card (redeemable only on Amazon.com) within approximately three business days of participating in the study. To be eligible for the gift card, your child must be in the age range for this study, you need to submit a valid consent statement, and we need to see that there is a child with you. But we will send a gift card even if you do not finish the whole study or we are not able to use your child's data. We can only compensate children for participating in this study once.