Challenging ‘rule breakers’ – children will confront their peers

Re:Challenging ‘rule breakers’ – children will confront thei... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @02:02PM (#29716770)

A toddler probably gets as much 'reward' from the Skinner box like iPad games on failure as on success. It makes a noise, flashes an interesting image.

The reason to 'succeed' an older child is to satisfy the conditions and progress in the game, a toddler maybe gets equal reward (at first) because they don't see why driving further is success.

Once the novelty of the first set of sounds and images is exhausted then interaction products new images and so greater 'reward'.

Doesn't seem useful behaviourally?

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Re:Challenging ‘rule breakers’ – children will confront thei... by mlyle on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @04:37PM (#29718554)

Being able to control the game and progress on demand is still mastery, even if the spectacular failure is interesting to explore first.

I blow up plenty of things in Kerbal Space Program in interesting ways before deciding to buckle down and get more science.

Playing around with the "wrong" geometrical proof instead of taking the straightforward and known-to-myself approach isn't harming me, either.

Young kids like exploring the whole state space-- not just the ones we're likely to label as success or useful. Then at some point later they get afraid to fail-- especially to be seen failing. It's a mixed bag: motivation to push "forward" is useful, but fear of failure prevents deeper understanding or full effort sometimes.

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