There is no foolin' H

The babes participate in a lot of psychology studies at the local universities. They go in, get to play with toys, watch little video clips, whatever. It's easy, fun, and at the end they get a free book or puzzle or whatnot, so they enjoy it.

Well, today I took Miss H in for one where they showed her a nonsensical shape, gave it a nonsensical name, then took it away and put two shapes in front of her - one the nonsensical shape, one that was different. Only the "new" nonsensical shape was a different color than the original. She was to point out which was the original. Pretty easy. She always got the correct shape, even though it was a different color.

Then they did round two. Nonsensical shape, then two shapes, but this time the nonsensical shape was the same color, but a different size. Once again, she still got them correct.

Then round three. This is where it went all downhill.

This time, they showed the nonsensical shape, took it away, and brought out two completely different shapes. They weren't like the original. At all.

So the poor girl who is conducting the study keeps asking Miss H to point out the "teeg" and H is all, "None of them! The teeg is gone!" And this goes on for a good while before the girl gives up and realizes that Miss H will not be fooled and she will not just randomly pick an object for her pleasure. She was asked to point at the "teeg", there is no longer a teeg, not even in a different color or a different size, thus there is nothing to point out.

And Miss H very loudly informed them of all of this.

They probably won't ask us back again.