See how the teacher reacts

For 4- to 5-year-old children

Your child will hear stories about a teacher and her students in a classroom. The students do different activities during the day and the teacher responds to how they do. Your child will guess who is good at an activity based on the teacher’s responses.

The ability to reason about one's own or others' competence is critical to young children's learning, motivation, and self concept. In this study, we are interested in how children reason about who is good at what based on a teacher’s emotional reactions to students' performance. The study will help us understand how children use social information to learn about competence.

10 minutes

After you finish the study, we will send you a $5 Amazon.com gift card within a week. To be eligible for the gift card, (1) your child must be in the age range for this study, (2) you need to submit a valid consent statement, and (3) we need to see that there is a child with you during the experiment. Each child can only participate in this study once.