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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Learning Sciences

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  • Individuals often possess awareness of their knowledge gaps.
  • Active learning strategies can enhance information acquisition.

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  • To investigate sensitivity to knowledge gaps across different age groups.
  • To determine if individuals actively seek information to resolve uncertainty.
  • To examine the impact of uncertainty-driven sampling on learning.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-situational word learning task was employed.
  • Participants (5-year-olds, 6-9-year-olds, adults) estimated knowledge of word-object associations.
  • Sampling behavior for objects with known and unknown labels was analyzed.

Main Results:

  • All age groups demonstrated sensitivity to knowledge gaps.
  • 6-9-year-olds and adults, unlike 5-year-olds, preferentially sampled objects with unknown labels.
  • Increased uncertainty-driven sampling did not correlate with improved test accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • Sensitivity to knowledge gaps is present in all tested age groups.
  • Active information seeking to reduce uncertainty emerges in older children and adults.
  • Uncertainty plays a key role in driving active learning behaviors in older children and adults.