Resource-rational approach to meta-control problems across the lifespan

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Beitragende

  • Alexa Ruel - , Concordia University (Autor:in)
  • Sean Devine - , McGill University (Autor:in)
  • Ben Eppinger - , Professur für Allgemeine Psychologie, Concordia University, Technische Universität Dresden (Autor:in)

Abstract

Over the last decade, research on cognitive control and decision-making has revealed that individuals weigh the costs and benefits of engaging in or refraining from control and that whether and how they engage in these cost–benefit analyses may change across development and during healthy aging. In the present article, we examine how lifespan age differences in cognitive abilities affect the meta-control of behavioral strategies across the lifespan and how motivation affects these trade-offs. Based on accumulated evidence, we highlight two hypotheses that may explain the existing results better than current models. In contrast to previous theoretical accounts, we assume that age differences in the engagement in cost–benefit trade-offs reflect a resource-rational adaptation to internal and external constraints that arise across the lifespan. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Development and Aging Psychology > Reasoning and Decision Making.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummere1556
FachzeitschriftWiley interdisciplinary reviews : WIREs ; Cognitive Science
Jahrgang12
Ausgabenummer5
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Sept. 2021
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 33590729

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • children, cognitive control, decision-making, meta-control, older adults