States of high pre-answer curiosity enhance memory for trivia answers similarly in children and adolescents¶
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q3 i3 High-curiosity trivia questions were better recalled than low-curiosity questions, with no age-group difference in the effect. → Fandakova Yana 2021
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Fandakova Yana 2021¶
Fandakova Yana, Gruber Matthias J. (2021). States of curiosity and interest enhance memory differently in adolescents and in children. Developmental Science, 24(1), e13005. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13005
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ANOVA on proportion correctly recalled trivia answers in N = 60 participants (children 10–12, adolescents 13–14), with within-subjects factor pre-answer curiosity (high vs. low) and between-subjects factor age group. The study found "a significant main effect of curiosity (F(1, 58) = 26.02, p < .001, ηp2 = .31, Mdifference = 7.4%)" with no age-group main effect or interaction.
"revealed a significant main effect of curiosity (F(1, 58) = 26.02, p < .001, ηp2 = .31, Mdifference = 7.4%). There was neither a significant main effect of age group (F(1, 58) = 1.31, p = .26, ηp2 = .02) nor a significant curiosity-by-age group interaction"
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Related Claims¶
- Curiosity about trivia answers is a U-shaped function of confidence, supporting information-gap theory — related
- Post-answer interest enhances trivia answer memory more strongly in adolescents than in children
- Curiosity enhances learning, including for incidental material encountered during high-curiosity states — related
- Positive information prediction errors enhance memory for low-curiosity answers increasingly with age — related
- Children with greater curiosity-related trivia memory benefits also show greater curiosity-related incidental face memory benefits — related
- High-curiosity states did not enhance recognition memory for incidental face images in children or adolescents — related
- Curiosity is a special case of interest, with the two constructs overlapping in a part-whole rather than mutually exclusive relationship — related
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States of high pre-answer curiosity enhance memory for trivia answers similarly in children and adolescents |
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States of high pre-answer curiosity enhance memory for trivia answers similarly in children and adolescents |
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