If you look, don’t think
Something that’s worth your time, especially if you have rugrats, which I don’t.
Helping children by teaching them to look away
Teaching young children to look away while they are thinking could help improve their problem-solving abilities.
Fiona Phelps and colleagues at Stirling University recruited 20 five-year-old children and videoed them while they answered a range of verbal and arithmetic questions of varying difficulty (e.g. “What is a telescope?”). The children were tested individually, with all questions posed by the same researcher who sat 1.5 feet in front of them. During a practice session and before the test proper, half the children were instructed to look away from the researcher while they thought of answers to the questions; the remaining children received no such instruction and acted as controls.
H/t: MR
