ECC Lab
These two studies both use puppets as part of their experimental design.
What do both CLACT2 and CULT have?
The Social Accounting study will use this type of methodology
What is a vignette?
A study that looked at delayed gratification in children using a fluffy, sweet treat.
What is the Marshmallow Test?
Used for within-subjects designs to minimize order effects by varying the order of conditions.
What is counterbalancing?
A big event happening this Sunday involving the Patriots and the Seahawks.
What is the Super Bowl?
In this study, an uncertain reasoner and a confident reasoner reach the same conclusions about moral and scientific dilemmas, but differ in how they reason and express certainty. What is this study called?
What is The Virtue of Intellectual Humility?
The Hide-and-Seek study requires two children to participate, what are we examining?
What is coordination/anti-coordination/strategic unpredictability?
These two scientists are renowned for their pioneering work in child development.
Who are Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky?
Researchers follow the individuals over an extended period to measure changes in development.
What are longitudinal studies?
Another big international event happening in Milan, Italy over the next few weeks.
What are the Winter Olympics 2026?
This cognitive scientist wrote "The Scientist in the Crib" and she was Dr. Kushnir's mentor.
Who is Alison Gopnik?
One country besides the United States that the True Self study was conducted in
What is the Philippines?
According to Mike Tomasello, this early-developing behavior, such as pointing to share interest, is crucial for later language development.
What is joint attention?
This method uses looking time to infer what infants expect or understand about the world.
What is the violation-of-expectation paradigm?
The name of the groundhog that Groundhog Day centers on.
Punxsutawney Phil
Children use _____ rules to make make inferences about novel situations within a domain, such as figuring out if they are allowed to play with a marble run.
What are closure rules?
The fourth area the MAC Lab's research centers on besides moral development, development of heuristics, and cultural influence on cognition.
What is the emergence of cooperation?
This is the capacity to understand other individuals by ascribing mental states to them.
What is theory of mind?
An analysis that is conducted before data collection to estimate the sample size needed to detect an effect.
What is a power analysis?
The Duke Child Studies Center is made up of five labs.
What are the MAC Lab, Tomasello Lab, ID Lab, ECC Lab, and WILD Lab?
One study in the lab compares human-human collaborations with human-AI collaborations involving 4 types of AI partners. One AI partner does better than the other three-- what is it called?
What are joint RL agents?
The CREATE study has children and adults make objects out of open-ended toys, what interesting observation has been seen in kids during this study?
What is resetting?
This computational framework explains how children use statistical evidence and prior knowledge to construct, update, and refine mental representations of the world.
What is bayesian causal learning?
A practice that increases statistical power and transparency by specifying hypotheses and analyses in advance.
What is preregistration?
The original Duke Psychology building is named after this professor, attorney, and university administrator who was also one of the first five Black undergraduates at Duke.
Who is Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke?