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Just-right challenge

A task level that is difficult enough to build effort but manageable enough for the child to experience success.

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Child bored easily and avoids effort tasks

Child bored easily and avoids effort tasks

What boredom may be communicating Boredom is often described casually, but psychologically it is a state of low engagement and dissatisfaction with the current activity. A child may experience it when a task has too little meaning, too little novelty, too much repetition, or too much effort for the expected payoff. In control-value terms, boredom […]