Lecture 3 - Curiosity and learning – experimental & educational research

Question 1

Overview:
Curiosity and learning (behaviour)
Curiosity and learning (neural underpinnings)
How emotion and reward interact with curiosity effects on learning (behaviour and neural underpinnings)
Curiosity and learning of incidental material (spill-over effects)
Curiosity and information prediction errors benefit learning independently

Answer 1

Understand?

Question 2

Describe the Gruber and Ranganath (2019) journal club paper

Answer 2

See journal club paper notes.

Question 3

Does curiosity benefit learning? Describe one study that investigates this.

Answer 3

See blue writing on page 1 of G doc notes.

Question 4

Describe the relationship, using one study, between confidence and curiosity on learning.

Answer 4

See blue writing on page 1-2 of G doc notes.

Question 5

Read blue writing on page 2-3 of G doc notes where it describes Stare et al. (2018) paper.

Answer 5

Understand?

Question 6

Describe, using 2 studies, the neural underpinnings of the relationship between curiosity and learning.

Answer 6

See orange text on page 3 of G doc notes.

Question 7

Describe, using one study, how curiosity and emotion enhance learning.

Answer 7

See purple text on page 4 of G doc notes.

Question 8

Describe, using 2 studies, how reward (extrinsic motivation) and curiosity affect learning.

Answer 8

See turquoise text on page 4-5 of G doc notes.

Question 9

Describe, using 2 studies, the relationship between curiosity and learning incidental material (think it means like - seeing a random face and asked to recall it later - ‘incidental’ (they didn’t know they were going to have to remember it later on))

Answer 9

See red text on page 5 of G doc notes.

Question 10

Describe, using one study, whether Information Prediction Errors (IPEs) enhance learning.

Answer 10

See yellow text on page 6 of G doc notes.