Stanford CoCoLab

You will be asked simple questions about animals. The HIT should take approximately 6-8 minutes. Please pay attention, thanks!

Please note: There will be multiple posted versions of this HIT (name: Language Study - Animals 045) throughout the day. Please attempt only one HIT this series. You will not be allowed to complete multiple HITs in this series.

Legal information: By answering the following questions, you are participating in a study being performed by cognitive scientists in the Stanford Department of Psychology. If you have questions about this research, please contact M. H. Tessler at mtessler@stanford.edu or Noah Goodman, at ngoodman@stanford.edu. You must be at least 18 years old to participate. Your participation in this research is voluntary. You may decline to answer any or all of the following questions. You may decline further participation, at any time, without adverse consequences. Your anonymity is assured; the researchers who have requested your participation will not receive any personal information about you.

Instructions

We are interested in how distinctive certain properties are of different animals. On each trial, you will learn that a thing has a property (for example: it barks) and be asked how likely it is that the thing is a certain animal (like a dog). There are trials in total. Press continue to begin.