A child's exploration is not about gaining something, but 'because they find value in the exploration itself.'
When you were little, you probably have many memories of exploring neighborhoods and schools near your friends. Recent research has confirmed that children's expeditions are not for gaining anything, but for exploration itself. According to this discovery, it has become clear that there is a reason for the behavior of children who seem to be running around at first glance.
Systematic Exploration and Uncertainty Dominate Young Children's Choices-Blanco--Developmental Science-Wiley Online Library
Young children would rather explore than get rewards
https://news.osu.edu/young-children-would-rather-explore-than-get-rewards/
Previous studies have shown that 'exploring a child is an important action for knowing how the world works,' but the action of exploring and the decision-making process I didn't know what the relationship was. So Nathaniel Branco and Vladimir Slautsky, who are studying psychology at Ohio State University, said two experiments to examine how adults and children differ in their responses to choices and the rewards they receive. The we.
The first experiment involved 32 4-year-olds and 34 adults. Each participant played a game where they clicked the illustrations of four types of characters displayed on the PC screen placed in front of them. When participants click on any character, virtual candy will be given as a reward, but the number of candies varied from 1 to 10 for each character.
In this game, when I instructed the character to click 100 times to get as many candies as possible, adults continued to click on the character with the most candies, as expected. As a result, the most rewarding character has a 86% chance of being clicked, while the child has only a 43% chance of clicking that character.
But it wasn't because the kids didn't understand the rules. That's because when I asked the children after the game, 'Which character clicks to get the most candy,' 20 of 22 children were able to answer correctly. In other words, the child knew which character they should click to get the most candies, but did not dare to click that character.
We also analyzed the children's choices and found that they did not click on the characters randomly, but rather on a systematic check of the four types of characters.
Regarding this result, Mr. Slautsky said, “Children were less obsessed with paying than adults and were more attracted to trying things out. I feel like trying again.'
The second experiment was very similar to the first, but three of the four characters were able to see the number of candies they had. The characters hiding the number of candies obtained randomly changed each time, but the number of candies obtained from each character was always the same. Therefore, even if the number of candy that can be obtained is hidden, it is possible to guess the candy obtained from the character.
The second experiment involved 36 children aged 4 and 5 and 37 adults. Again, adults had a 94% chance of making the best choice, while children had only 40% of the best choice. 'Most of the children were interested in the 'choice of hidden options' itself,' said Slautsky.
Mr. Blanco concluded the results of this study, 'The two experiments revealed that seemingly random behavior of children is likely to be backed by a desire to accumulate information'. ..
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