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Limited information motivates children to learn

04.07.2021

Researchers at Rutgers University found that limited information motivates young children to learn. According to the study, preschool children are sensitive to the difference between how much they know and how much they still have to learn.

Preschool children tend to choose to gather more information about something if it interests them. This ability creates the perfect combination of insecurity and curiosity in children and motivates them to learn more.

The study focused on how the level of knowledge of children affects what information they are interested in. The data obtained indicate that children are attracted not only by the novelty of information. Children are naturally curious, scientists say, but the tricky question is how to harness that natural curiosity.

In a series of experiments, the authors developed personal and online storybooks to measure how many 3- to 5-year-old preschoolers knew about different "knowledge areas". The experiment also assessed their ability to understand a specific topic, such as contagion, and asked how the children's current level of knowledge predicted their interest in learning about the subject, including whether someone would get sick after playing with a sneezing friend.

Intuitively, curiosity seems to belong to those who know the most, like scientists, and those who know the least, like babies. But what the authors of the study found is rather surprising: it was children of this age who showed the greatest interest in studying the topic of infection, compared with children who knew too little or too much. The results of the study will help parents and educators better support children as they actively explore and experience the world.

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