Animal Hide-and-Seek!

For babies aged 11.5 to 12.5 months who are learning English as their first language and who reside in the United States

In this study, your baby will watch short videos filled with cute, stuffed animals. Each of these animals will hide behind a screen, and your baby will watch as the screen is then raised. We will record how interested your baby is in looking at what animal comes out from behind the screen.

Babies pay close attention to how objects behave in the world and know that objects cannot just seemingly change their identity for no reason. Here, we are asking if babies still remember that an object is the same one even if it disappears and reappears from view. This study will help us understand how babies start to use their knowledge about objects to respond to events involving those objects.

10 minutes

$5 Amazon.com gift card. After you finish the study, we will email you an Amazon gift card within 1 week. To be eligible for compensation, the following criteria must be met: (1) your child must be in the age range for this study and must not have previously done this study; (2) you need to submit a valid video consent statement; (3) we need to see that there is a child with you in the study participation video.