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  • Cognitive Development
  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Accurate assessment of environmental controllability is crucial for adaptive behavior.
  • Understanding how this assessment ability develops from childhood to adulthood is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-related changes in the assessment of environmental controllability.
  • To identify the cognitive strategies and mechanisms underlying these developmental shifts.

Main Methods:

  • Ninety participants (ages 8-25) performed a task with alternating controllable and uncontrollable conditions.
  • Behavioral data on exploration and action choices were collected.
  • Computational modeling was used to analyze assessment strategies.

Main Results:

  • Accuracy in assessing environmental controllability improved with age.
  • Younger children relied on random exploration, while older individuals used task knowledge.
  • Working memory capacity mediated the shift towards inferential strategies.

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive processes for assessing environmental controllability undergo significant age-related changes.
  • Developmental improvements in controllability detection enhance adaptive behavior by optimizing action-outcome learning.