Young Children Calibrate Effort Based on the Trajectory of Their Performance.

Learning requires effort, but children cannot try hard at everything. Here, we evaluated whether children use their improvement over time to decide whether to stick with a challenge. To eliminate the effect of individual differences in ability or prior knowledge, we created a novel paradigm that all...

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Published in:	Developmental Psychology Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 609 - 620
Main Authors:	Leonard, Julia A., Cordrey, Skyler R., Liu, Hunter Z., Mackey, Allyson P.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association Mar2023
Subjects:	United States Child development Task performance Learning Intellect
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost