The Tapping Game
The tapping game is when I tap one time, you tap two times, and when I tap two times, you tap one time. Children play this game sixteen times, mixing up the times that children are asked to tap once when the experimenter taps twice, and tap twice when the experimenter taps once. In other words, the rules of the game keep changing, and the children need to apply their focus and attention to follow what’s going on. Blair says: What happens with four-year-olds is, in general, they’ll hang in there with you for a few taps—then they’ll just start mimicking your tapping. There’s a strong tendency to mimic what the experimenter is doing, and the inference is that the rule has just sort of evaporated out of the child’s mind.
Notes:
A game for children to learn focus.
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