Can you match it?

For 3-year-olds

In this study, you and your child will see eight matching tasks that involve boxes with shapes. Each time, you and your child will listen to the instructions, and pick which box matches best with the target box. Throughout the experiment, you or your child will click to make responses (if your child cannot click, they can point to the answer and you can click the answer they choose).

This study aims to explore how very young children, 3-year-olds, come to understand relational mappings. This is worth exploring because many studies suggest that young children are more sensitive to surface level properties, but in a matching game context, can they be sensitive to higher-order properties too?

15 minutes

You can only participate in this study once for compensation. After you finish the study, we will email you a $5 Amazon gift card from Amazon.com (via a code that can be entered online) within ten days to thank you for your time. To be eligible for the gift card, (1) your child must be in the age range for this study, (2) English is (one of) your child's first language(s), (3) need to submit a valid consent statement in which we can see you AND your child in the frame, (4) must not have participated in similar matching tasks (you will get a warning message if this is the case!). Please make sure you are with your child throughout, especially if they cannot click the buttons (they can point and you can click their answer).