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Title:

Searching for Rewards Like a Child Means Less Generalization and More Directed Exploration

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Schulz, Eric; Wu, Charley M.; Ruggeri, Azzurra; Meder, Björn
Abstract:
How do children and adults differ in their search for rewards? We considered three different hypotheses that attribute developmental differences to (a) children's increased random sampling, (b) more directed exploration toward uncertain options, or (c) narrower generalization. Using a search task in which noisy rewards were spatially correlated on a grid, we compared the ability of 55 younger children (ages 7 and 8 years), 55 older children (ages 9–11 years), and 50 adults (ages 19–55 years) to...     »
Keywords:
development,exploration–exploitation,generalization,multiarmed-bandit task,open data,open materials,search
Journal title:
Psychological Science
Year:
2019
Journal volume:
30
Journal issue:
11
Pages contribution:
1561--1572
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1177/0956797619863663
Print-ISSN:
14679280
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