This week in the Rutgers Cognitive Development lab, I got to visit a preschool to test children. I went with the two grad students, Lu and Michelle. The kids in the preschool were aged three to five and we tested about fifteen. Most of what I did was filling out coding sheets (the sheets with the kid’s responses) and brining the kids in and out of the room where we were testing. Michelle ran Triple False Belief by telling a story and Lu ran Double False Belief on an eye tracker TV monitor. Both studies test how many false belief states children can keep track of, where a false belief is a when a character has an incorrect belief about the thoughts or actions of another character. TFB was done through a story, and DFB was done through video. Unfortunately, most of the kids failed the control questions for TFB (questions to make sure they understand the facts of the story.) However, it was a good experience to go to my first preschool.
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