A reward-learning framework of knowledge acquisition: An integrated account of curiosity, interest, and intrinsic–extrinsic rewards.
Institute of Education Sciences · University of Tübingen
Abstract
Recent years have seen a considerable surge of research on interest-based engagement, examining how and why people are engaged in activities without relying on extrinsic rewards. However, the field of inquiry has been somewhat segregated into three different research traditions which have been developed relatively independently-research on curiosity, interest, and trait curiosity/interest. We identify "long-term development" as a critical factor that links different research traditions, and set out an integrative perspective called the reward-learning framework of knowledge acquisition. This framework takes on the basic premise of existing reward-learning models of information seeking: that knowledge…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 46.30
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- 100%
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1Topics & keywords
- Curiosity
- Psychology
- Conceptualization
- Process (computing)
- Cognitive psychology
- Set (abstract data type)
- Knowledge acquisition
- Social psychology