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According to a recent study, because children explore more than adults, this helps them learn better than adults.

The study pointed out that when adults try new things but get negative results, they usually don't try again.

One of the co-authors, Dr. Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote: "This seems to be the most basic kind of intelligence-even mice will stay away from the path that causes electric shock."

She said that the downside is that if adults reject new things immediately after we get bad results, "we will never know that the world is more complicated than that."

According to this research, on the other hand, children have a strong curiosity and desire to explore, which helps them learn many different things quickly.

She conducted a scientific experiment with Emily Liquin, a cognitive scientist at New York University, to test whether young children’s exploration motivation affects their learning style.

They played a game with 64 young children (4 and 5 years old) and 87 adults. Each person placed different blocks on a machine and followed a rule: if the machine lights up, they will get one made up of stars Prizes, but if the machine does not light up, they lose twice.

The goal of the game is to find that all blocks except the white dots can work (in other words, the black dots are fine).

Most children understand the rules correctly, and more than 70% of adults cannot, but this comes at a price: children get fewer stars.

She described it as a "learning trap" experiment, showing that adults usually draw conclusions faster, while children are more willing to explore and collect more information before deciding on the results.

The study has a major limitation, because compared with American adults, it only studied children between the ages of 4 and 7, and pointed out that cultural differences may also affect children’s learning styles, so more research is needed to extend it to According to the paper, a wider population and background.

Gopnik concluded: "We adults are often eager to develop instead of exploring, afraid of losing stars, so that we miss the opportunity to learn new things."

"In contrast, children are natural explorers who are willing to sacrifice stars for information. You need two ways of thinking to thrive, but we adults may learn something from curious children who are never satisfied. ," she added.