The Change Detective

For 4- to 6-year-olds

This study will take place on a Zoom video call, live with a researcher! Clicking on the “Participate Now!” button will send you to an online calendar where you can select a date and time that works for you. In this study, children will take the role of detectives and solve mysteries related to changing pictures. They will win coins for solving the mysteries.

This study investigates children's analogical reasoning skills: their ability to observe, discover common patterns from a given set of visual data, and apply the underlying patterns that they learn to new things that they will then see. This is important for understanding how much children can learn from passive visual data.

15 minutes

Participants will receive a certificate of completion signed by Dr. Alison Gopnik within 24 hours after the study!