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Child Participants Needed!: Purpose
Child Participants Needed!: Purpose
Your child can take part in a fun research study online and contribute to our understanding of
how children think about the world!
This research has been approved by the Toronto Metropolitan University Research Ethics Board.
Purpose:
This study investigates children’s use of technical language as a cue of expertise and how
this can influence who they chose to learn information from.
Who? What?
Children who are 10-12 or 14-16 Your child will be asked to listen to ten
years of age pairs of short statements and answer a
Typically developing without a few questions surrounding the topic of
known developmental diagnosis expertise.
Fluent in English Will be conducted through one 30-minute
Access to a computer and Zoom Zoom meeting.
Interested?
Email the TMU Early Childhood Cognition Lab at ecclab@torontomu.ca
Compensation of a $5 e-gift card to Amazon or Indigo
Principle Investigator: Dr. Lili Ma, Associate professor, Department of Psychology (lilima@torontomu.ca, 416-979-
5000 ext. 552694)
Student researcher: Emma Marquis, MA student, Department of Psychology (emma.marquis@torontomu.ca)
If you have questions regarding your child’s rights in this study, please contact Toronto Metropolitan University Research
Ethics Board (416-979-5042, rebchair@torontomu.ca, mailing address: c/o Office of the Vice President Research and
Innovation [350 Victoria Street, Toronto M5B 2K3]