Let's Draw!

For 4-year-old children

Your child will watch a short video with some instructions from an experimenter and then your child will draw a picture. To participate, your child will need to feel comfortable communicating in English (e.g., English is spoken in the home and/or they have spent at least 1 full year in an English-speaking preschool). Your child will also need two blank sheets of white 8.5” x 11” paper (US Letter Size) and a regular pencil with an eraser.

This study will help us understand how children communicate about the world around them, both in drawings and in language. What information children draw when given a verbal prompt will show us what spatial information they pay attention to and understand and how they translate that attention and understanding to communicate to others using drawing. Ultimately by studying how children draw spatial information, we aim to understand how they think about space more generally.

15 minutes

After you finish the study, we will email you a $5 (USD) Amazon.com gift card (redeemable only at Amazon.com) within approximately three business days. To be eligible for the gift card your child must be in the age range for this study, you need to submit a valid consent statement, and we need to see that there is a child participating in the study. We will send a gift card even if your child does not finish the whole study or we are not able to use your child’s data. We offer only one gift card per child per study.