Exploring Digital Toys!

3-to-8-year-old children

Your child will complete a game about different teachers and the toys that they found. Your child will watch two short videos of two different teachers with unique, digitized toys that might work in different ways. After watching each video, your child will be allowed to explore the two toys and answer some quick questions about how the two toys work.

We are interested in learning about how different teaching scenarios can affect children's play and exploration. Children may be able to balance the efficiency of learning from a knowledgeable teacher's direct instruction, with potential opportunities to explore on their own and possibly uncover their own discoveries. By studying how your child plays with the toys in this study, we hope to investigate how children's learning may be affected by their interactions with other people - such as their teachers. This is because a teacher's behaviors may in-turn influence children's decisions. Here, we hope to better understand how different teaching behaviors might affect children's preferences and behaviors when learning about the world.

10-15 minutes

After you finish the study, we will email you a $5 Amazon.com gift card within seven days. If you are unable to access Amazon.com from where you live, please let us know via email and we can send you a gift card that will work in your country. To be eligible for the gift card and certificate, (1) your child must be in the age range for this study, (2) English is (one of) your child's first language(s), (3) you need to submit a valid consent statement, (4) we need to see that there is a child with you during the experiment. If you or your child do not wish to complete the entire study or for some reason, we are unable to use your child's data, we will still send you and your child a gift card and certificate. Each child is eligible to participate to receive a gift card only once.