The researchers explained to the children that they were going to be rewarded, with verbal praise and a plastic token, when giving the right answer, but only sometimes and not each time they gave the correct answer.
THE GAME OF LIFE RULES 2016 FULL
The screen showed a ten by ten grid full of mixed blue and red faces, and the children had just to hit a blue or red button according to the predominant colour they saw on the screen. All the children played a simple game in which they had to decide if there were more blue or red faces on the screen in front of them. More than half of these children were diagnosed with ADHD. The researchers tested 167 English-speaking children, aged between 8 and 13, in Japan and New Zealand. The scientists studied this issue exploring how children with ADHD behave when they play a game that has rules that change slightly, without explanation. However, children with ADHD struggle to match their behaviour with the surrounding context. For example, we behave differently during a lunch break than in a lab meeting even if we are dealing with the same group of people. "That's how we learn: we do the things that have a positive outcome for us." Even if the rules to get rewarded are rarely stated, the majority of us seamlessly move between different settings, adapting our behaviour to maximize the chances to get - socially - rewarded. "All of us tend to repeat those actions that get rewarded," said Prof Gail Tripp, one of the authors of the paper and director of the Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST).
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