Despite the vital role of curiosity-driven exploration in learning, our understanding of how to enhance children's curiosity remains limited. Here, we tested whether hearing a strategic curiosity story with curiosity-promoting themes (e.g., strategically approaching uncertainty, adapting flexibly to new information) versus a control story with traditional pedagogical themes (e.g., following rules, learning from others) would influence children's strategic exploration across two cultures. Three- to 6-year-olds from the United States (N = 138) and Turkey (N = 88) were randomly assigned to hear one of these stories over Zoom, before playing a game in which they searched for sea creatures across five fish tanks. All tanks had the same number of hiding spots but varied in the number of creatures they contained. Time was limited and children could not return to prior tanks, pushing them to allocate search effort strategically. Results indicated that across both countries, children in the strategic curiosity condition explored the virtual "aquarium" more broadly; they moved through tanks more rapidly than children in the control condition and were more likely to explore all five tanks before time ran out. Children in the strategic curiosity condition also showed relatively more strategic search, adapting their search based on the likelihood of finding creatures in each tank. While further research is needed to pinpoint which elements of our stories produced differences in search behavior and whether they did so by enhancing or inhibiting children's strategic exploration, storybooks appear to be a promising method for shaping children's exploration across multiple countries. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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接下来我应该去哪里搜索？故事书中嵌入的信息影响着土耳其和美国儿童的战略探索。


尽管好奇心驱动的探索在学习中发挥着至关重要的作用，但我们对如何增强儿童好奇心的理解仍然有限。在这里，我们测试了听到具有促进好奇心的主题（例如，战略性地接近不确定性、灵活地适应新信息）的战略好奇心故事与具有传统教学主题（例如，遵循规则、向他人学习）的控制故事是否会影响儿童的策略跨两种文化的探索。来自美国 (N = 138) 和土耳其 (N = 88) 的 3 至 6 岁儿童被随机分配通过 Zoom 聆听其中一个故事，然后玩一个游戏，他们在五种鱼中寻找海洋生物坦克。所有坦克都有相同数量的隐藏点，但所容纳的生物数量不同。时间有限，孩子们无法返回之前的坦克，迫使他们战略性地分配搜索工作。结果表明，在这两个国家，处于战略好奇状态的儿童更广泛地探索虚拟“水族馆”；他们在水箱中移动的速度比控制条件下的儿童​​更快，并且更有可能在时间耗尽之前探索所有五个水箱。处于战略好奇状态的孩子也表现出相对更具战略性的搜索，根据在每个水箱中找到生物的可能性来调整他们的搜索。虽然还需要进一步的研究来查明故事中的哪些元素导致了搜索行为的差异，以及它们是否通过增强或抑制儿童的战略探索来实现这一点，但故事书似乎是塑造多个国家儿童探索的一种有前途的方法。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。