ABSTRACT
Curiosity, quite simply, is the desire to learn more. Like other motivational concepts, it entails two important properties: the capacity to energize behavior and the power to control its direction. Typically, curiosity is aroused when we are exposed to an object or event that is outside the realm of customary experience, but it can also be aroused when we reconsider, from a new perspective, that which has become customary. A curious person is one who is open to new information or new ways of looking at what has become familiar. Environments that foster curiosity are complex and varied enough to engender a range of expectations for what might occur, while still offering enough structure to support the development of these expectations.
