Stanford University

Stanford Language and Cognition Lab

In this game, we're interested in your decision making when you come across a new device. The task should only take about 5 minutes or less. Thank you for participating!

Note: you won't be able to preview this HIT before accepting it because it's so short.

Imagine that you are a children’s toy developer, and you’ve designed three toys that each work in different ways.



Each toy looks like this:



Click Next to see how each toy works.

Please answer the following questions to make sure you've understood the instructions.




music notes

Remember that the toy could be one of these three:



Which action do you want to take?






very unlikely
very likely


Please answer the following questions to help us improve our task. Thank you!

Why did you select the action that you chose?

What do you think this task was about?

Do you have any other comments for us? Was there anything broken or that could be improved?

What is your age in years?

What is your gender? (m = male, f = female, o = other)

What is your first language?

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