'Learning trap' study reveals why children may be better learners than adults
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Because children explore more than adults, this helps them learn better than grown-ups, according to a recent study.
One of the co-authors, Dr. Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, wrote, "That might seem like the most basic kind of intelligence—even rats stay away from a path that leads to a shock."
The downside, she said, if adults immediately reject something new after we get a bad result, "we will never learn that the world is more complicated than that."
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