{"pk":28832,"title":"Causal intervention strategies change across adolescence","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Intervening on causal systems can illuminate their underlyingstructures. Past work has shown that, relative to adults, youngchildren often make intervention decisions that confirm sin-gle hypotheses rather than those that discriminate alternativehypotheses. Here, we investigated how the ability to make in-formative intervention decisions changes across development.Ninety participants between the ages of 7 and 25 completed40 different puzzles in which they had to intervene on vari-ous causal systems to determine their underlying structures.We found that the use of discriminatory strategies increasedthrough adolescence and plateaued into adulthood. Our resultsidentify a clear developmental trend in causal reasoning, andhighlight the need to expand research on causal learning mech-anisms in adolescence.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cognitive development; information-seeking; hy-pothesis testing; causal learning"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h85r4xb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kate","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nussenbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"Alexandra","middle_name":"O.","last_name":"Cohen","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"Zachary","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Davis","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Halpern","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"Todd","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Gureckis","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"Catherine","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Hartley","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28832/galley/18703/download/"}]}