Benutzer: Gast  Login
Titel:

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

Dokumenttyp:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Autor(en):
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...     »
Stichworte:
development,exploration–exploitation,generalization,multiarmed-bandit task,open data,open materials,search
Zeitschriftentitel:
Psychological Science
Jahr:
2019
Band / Volume:
30
Heft / Issue:
11
Seitenangaben Beitrag:
1561--1572
Volltext / DOI:
doi:10.1177/0956797619863663
Print-ISSN:
14679280
 BibTeX