Distracting adults during task makes them behave like children 🧒. Research found overloading adults’ working memory 🧠 results in the same problems with attention that come with children’s underdeveloped working memory.
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Distracting adults during task makes them behave like children
Researchers have known that children often don’t focus on tasks and tend to “over explore” instead of paying attention to what they should be doing. However, why they do has remained unknown. Are they simply curious or is something missing…