Movies
Si On's Lab
Susie's Lab
Sudha's Lab
Broadway
100
These Marvel movies tell the story of a nerdy high school student who gains superhero abilities after being bitten by a genetically modified insect.
What is "Spiderman"?
100
The shared knowledge that conversational partners establish through interaction (or through shared community membership)
What is Common ground?
100
This is often measured as the percent of words correct in a sentence.
What is intelligibility?
100
Children usually say their first word at this age.
What is 10-12 months?
100
This musical is based on an animated Disney movie that taught us about the circle of life.
What is the "The Lion King"?
200
Adapted from the 1925 book of the same name, this film follows the life of a millionaire and his neighbor during the Jazz Age.
What is "The Great Gatsby"?
200
This is a type of long term memory also called declarative that stores shared experiences and common ground.
What is episodic memory?
200
This can happen when the visual speech cue and the auditory speech cue don't match.
What is the McGurk Effect?
200
Eye-tracking experiments show that infants at this age show some understanding of what words mean, even though they are not talking yet.
What is 6-9 months?
200
This 20-year-old musical is the untold story of the witches of Oz.
What is "Wicked"?
300
This movie is a comedic biographical retelling of Jordan Belfort's career as a stockbroker in NYC and his firm's corruption and fraud.
What is "The Wolf of Wall Street"?
300
This can help provide a simulated natural environment and facilitate participant engagement (pros) but may increase cognitive demand, fatigue, or cybersickness (cons)
What is Virtual Reality?
300
Having more of this with an accent helps make that accent easier to understand.
What is familiarity? (experience or exposure)
300
Young children often make errors when using this type of word to refer to themselves.
What is a pronoun?
300
This hit musical sings and raps about the life of this American Founding Father and his involvement in the American Revolution.
What is Hamilton?
400
This 2010 American psychological horror film follows a young dancer's experience preparing for a production of the New York City Ballet.
What is "Black Swan"?
400
The type of prediction condition helps the most with better downstream memory performance
What is Prediction Violation?
400
This type of speech is made by combining tones together.
What is sine wave speech?
400
The "wug" test shows that children have learned this.
What is a rule? [or how to make the plural]
400
Named after the windy city, this musical is the story of two death-row murderesses as they compete for publicity, fame, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
What is "Chicago"?
500
Starring Audrey Hepburn, this movie's opening scene features the main character sipping her coffee and eating a croissant while looking at the blue box jewelry store's window display.
What is "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
500
Older adults produced this more than younger adults and showed better memory in the later recognition task than younger adults.
What is modifiers?
500
They could do this although they were sad.
What is laugh?
500
This type of grammatical structure is very rare in most children's language experience, but they still manage to learn it by age 5.
What is passive voice OR relative clauses?
500
The longest-running Broadway show told the story of the masked composer who haunts a theatre in Paris for the last time in April 2023.
What is "the Phantom of the Opera"?
