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measure Impossible puzzle
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: Observation Available measurements: Generation R 3 yearsIn the Impossible puzzle paradigm, children are instructed to assemble a wooden puzzle in which one piece is intentionally made too big, so that it would never fit. The observations are coded to score children's persistence on the task (i.e., working on the puzzle, trying to make the major piece fit).Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Language Development Survey (LDS)
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Generation R 2.5 yearsThe Language Development Survey (LDS) assesses receptive and expressive language development. It is a 310-word vocabulary checklist, e.g., ‘Apple’ and ‘Tortoise’, with words arranged within 14 semantic categories. Parents are asked to identify the words that the child uses spontaneously.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Parent Report Children's Abilities (PARCA) - abbreviated version
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Generation R 2 years 2.5 yearsThe Parent Report of Children's Abilities (PARCA) is a questionnaire used to assess the developmental progress in areas such as communication, socialization, self-help skills, and cognitive abilities of children aged 1-4 years. Parents received a questionnaire with 9 wooden cubes to administer several playful tasks with their child. The PARCA consists of...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Gaze Cueing experiment
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Eyetracking Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 months 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Gaze Cuing experiment is an eye-tracking task that measures a participant's sensitivity to another person's gaze direction as a possible cue to predict the location of a next event. Sensitivity to gaze direction is taken as a marker of social competence. In the Social Gaze Task, children see a face with direct gaze, followed by an eye gaze shift to...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) - Pragmatics
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) was designed to assess general language ability and specific language domains, and screen for language disorders in children and youth between 5 and 18 years. The Preschool version is meant for toddlers between 3 and 6 years old. The CELF consists of many subscales, such as Concepts and Following...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure EEG Face House
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests EEG Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 months 3 years 6 yearsIn the Face-House task, infants or children up to the age of 6 passively watch pictures of faces with a neutral expression (12 faces repeated four times) and pictures of typical Dutch houses (also 12 x 4) while their Electrocardiography (EEG) is measured. This task lasts approximately 3-4 minutes.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Looking While Listening
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Eyetracking Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 yearsThe Looking While Listening task is an eye-tracking paradigm. It is a simplified version of a visual world paradigm, in which every trial presents pairs of familiar images/objects of roughly the same size (for example, a chair and a bath), accompanied by a pre-recorded Dutch sentence that asks the participant to look at one of these images (e.g., where is...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Infant Gap Overlap task
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Eyetracking Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 months 3 yearsThe Gap-Overlap task (adapted from Elsabbagh, Fernandes et al., 2013) is a gaze contingent paradigm that measures visual attention shifting between a central and a peripheral stimulus. This is thought to be a key process underlying behavioral control. The Gap-Overlap task contains three conditions; i) Gap, in which the central stimulus disappears 200ms...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Infant Face Popout
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Eyetracking Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 months 3 years 6 yearsInfant Face Popout is a shortened version of the face-pop out experiment (Gliga et al, 2009 Exp1; Elsabbagh et al., 2013), a free viewing experiment in which children are presented with multiple five-item arrays (always: 1. Human face; 2. Car; 3. Mobile phone; 4. Bird; 5; Face-shaped noise figure). It tests whether children automatically orient to faces...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure EEG Coherence
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests EEG Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 months 3 years 6 yearsIn the EEG Cohorence task, young children passively watch 60-second video clips depicting singing women (created by Sabine Hunnius and colleagues) or moving toys (used earlier by Jones et al., 2015) while Electrocardiography (EEG) is measured. The task lasts approximately 6 minutes, where both sets of videos last 60 seconds.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Hand Game
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: Observation Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 yearsThe Hand game aims to measure non-verbal inhibitory control in children aged 3 to 5 years and is based on the adapted hand game by Hughes (1996). During the task, the child is asked to place a flattened hand on the table whenever the researcher presents a fist and to present a fist whenever the researcher places a flattened hand on the table. Each child...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Macarthur Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI)
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Baby and Child 10 months 3 yearsThe MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are a pair of widely used parent-report instruments for assessing communicative skills in infants and toddlers. The CDIs are parent report instruments which capture important information about children's developing abilities in early language, including vocabulary comprehension, production,...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure EEG Face Emotion
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests EEG Available measurements: Baby and Child 10 months 3 years 6 yearsThe EEG Face Emotion task aims understand how the developing brain differentially responds to viewing faces with different facial expressions (happy and fear). In the task, young children (from 10 months onwards) passively watch pictures of happy or fearful faces while their Electrocardiography (EEG) is measured. Note that the same faces, but with neutral...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Peabody Picture Vocabulary Task (PPVT-III-NL)
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Peabody-Picture vocabulary task (PPVT; Dunn and Dunn, 1981) is a widely used task to evaluate a participant’s vocabulary size for their age, and serves as a proxy of general language performance. It is normed for participants between 2 and 90 years old. On each trial, participants see an array of four pictures and hear a word that matches one of these...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
