Curiosity is an unconscious desire for new knowledge. It is customary to call someone curious who is eager to find out the news and everything that surrounds and happens around.
A person's curiosity can be compared to greed. Since both of these phenomena are aimed at obtaining a thing or information in order to satisfy. A person needs to develop, he must strive for knowledge of the new.
Sometimes people do not ask questions because of shyness, indecision, other reasons come from childhood. True, such people do not develop, their consciousness does not comprehend new information.
Curiosity and the brain
Curiosity is the strongest basic impulse in humans. Scientists have explored the relationship between the brain and curiosity. Conducted experiments on adolescents using the MRI system. During the study, it was found that when the phenomenon of curiosity arises, the part of the brain responsible for feelings of satisfaction and pleasure begins to work actively. When the desired information is received, there is a feeling similar to joy, happiness from achieving success, the same as when receivingmoney or food. The brain begins to actively produce dopamine - the hormone of pleasure.
Craving for knowledge
An interesting fact: if a student or student is curious, then, having received an answer to his question, he will remember it better and faster than hackneyed, uninteresting material.
Rangantah conducted research and found that students remember better when they are interested. The brain is able to remember additional information in a state of curiosity, even if it is random.
So you can use the curiosity of the child in order to assimilate the educational material. For example, how to teach a student to count percentages? It is necessary to solve problems with the purchase of a tablet, a bicycle, or something else that is interesting to the child, for example, with discounts in the store. In this format, training will be productive and fast.
Therefore, curiosity is an integral part of education and quality learning.
What scientists guess about
And yet the topic of curiosity has not been fully explored. Scientists have not answered the question: why does a person feel pleasure from studying interesting things or what is forbidden. Rangantah believes that curiosity is a phenomenon when the brain sends an motivating signal to overcome uncertainty. In order to survive, you need to know the world around you.
Unexplored remains the duration of the state of curiosity and what it depends on.
That's why everyone's phenomenon of interest is different.
