Memory & Learning

Beetle Classification

  • 1You will be shown images of fictional beetles and asked to classify them as Species A or Species B
  • 2After each classification, you will receive feedback (correct / incorrect)
  • 3There is a rule that distinguishes the two species — try to find it
  • 4After each response, rate your confidence in your classification

What this measures

How people learn to classify novel objects into categories — whether they discover explicit rules or rely on exemplar similarity. Confidence ratings capture metacognitive monitoring of learning in real time.

This demo takes approximately 6 minutes