Help Robo figure out secret rules!

For 4- to 7-year olds

Your child will play a grid-based game where they have to make patterns on grids that follow certain rules. First, your child will learn how to play the game. Then, they will play 10 rounds of a game where they have to figure out the secret rule and then follow that rule! There will be an additional set of trials after the initial 10 test trials that your child can play if they are enjoying the game.

We want to understand how children figure out a hidden rule from just a few examples. When children see a few example grids change in some way, can they figure out the rule and use it on a new grid they’ve never seen before? This helps us learn how young children make sense of new problems and where flexible, abstract thinking comes from.

20 minutes

After you participate, we will email you a $5 Amazon gift card (from Amazon.com) within 2 weeks from participation to thank you for your time. In order to receive compensation, the following needs to be true: (a) English is (one of) your child’s first language(s), (b) you and your child must be visible during the video consent and throughout the study, and (c) your child must be in the age range for this study. Each child is eligible to receive a gift card only once.