What is incidental learning? How is it assessed and how does it develop?
What will be an ideal response?
Incidental learning represents learning irrelevant features of a task. For example,
children could be told a story and asked about the main plot and overall conclusion.
These assessments would represent task relevant learning—such learning improves
with age. However, we could also assess less important features of the story, in this
assessment, younger children generally perform better. This result may inform us as to
why older children engage in more task relevant learning, that is, their thinking is more
attentive and organized.
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