Improving children’s affective decision making in the Children’s Gambling Task

Andrews, Glenda; Moussaumai, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.05.005

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“…More generally, the research demonstrated the value of employing facilitation techniques that are informed by theory and knowledge of the underlying cognitive processes when investigating the extent to which relational processing can be improved (Andrews, Halford & Boyce, 2012;Andrews & Moussaumai, 2015). The domain-general quality of relational reasoning and findings from the current research indicate that experience in one content domain can facilitate performance in a different content domains.…”

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Does solving distant analogies facilitate relational integration?

Andrews

Bohadana

2017

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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Relational processing underpins many forms of human thinking. This research addressed whether relational integration in the n-term task (linear syllogisms with three and four premises) can be facilitated. We hypothesized that solving distant analogies (e.g., furnace : coal :: stomach : ______) but not near analogies (e.g., furnace : coal :: woodstove :______) would facilitate n-term performance of undergraduates (N = 120). Participants generated solutions to near analogies (near condition), to distant analogies (distant condition) while participants in the control condition completed a word rating task. Participants then completed the n-term task with items at two levels of complexity (ternary, quaternary), and a fluid intelligence test. Solving distant analogies facilitated relational integration on the more complex quaternary-relational items. It eliminated the complexity effect in the n-term task and the association between quaternary-relational reasoning and fluid intelligence.

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Does solving distant analogies facilitate relational integration?

Andrews

Bohadana

2017

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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“…The task was a four-choice version with just two underlying win/loss rules (version AACC by Crone et al [4]): probabilities for gaining and losing apples were identical for doors A and B and for doors C and D, respectively. This makes the task less complex than the standard fourchoice HDT by Crone and Van Der Molen [5] but more complex than a two-choice gambling task as often used with younger children [e.g., [31][32][33]]. Also, to ensure an ageappropriate task difficulty, there was a high frequency of losses for all doors (50% of all trials), based on the finding that children learn to choose advantageous doors faster when they experience frequent losses, compared to less frequent but higher losses [4].…”

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Overweight and Normal-Weight Children’s Decision-Making in a Child Variant of the Iowa Gambling Task

Lensing

Elsner

2017

Child Development Research

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In the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), overweight as compared to normal-weight adults make more risky decisions resulting in immediate rewards and long-term losses. Findings regarding a potentially moderating role of gender have been inconsistent and investigations on the development of weight-group differences in decision-making during childhood are lacking. Using a 3-wave longitudinal study, we examined decision-making in a matched sample of 94 overweight and 94 normal-weight children (49% girls, aged 6-9 years at wave 1) over a 3-year period. Decision-making was measured with the Hungry Donkey Task (HDT), an ageappropriate version of the IGT, and learning within the task was examined via analysis across trial blocks. Mixed-design ANOVA revealed that more risky decisions were made by overweight as compared to normal-weight children and by girls as compared to boys. Within-task learning was evident at all three waves, moderated by weight group and gender. However, although risky decisions generally decreased across the 3-year period, weight-group and gender differences did not significantly change over the 3-year period. Our findings demonstrate that weight-group and gender differences in decision-making are already present and do not significantly change over a 3-year period in middle childhood.

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“…This raises the question of whether age-related declines in complex relational processing can be prevented. Experimental manipulations that promote relational processing in children (Andrews et al, 2012; Andrews & Moussaumai, 2015) and young adults (Andrews & Bohadana, 2018; Vendetti et al, 2014) have been identified. These techniques are still in the early stages of development, and the duration of the effects are still to be determined.…”

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Relational thinking in later adulthood.

Todd¹,

Andrews²,

Conlon³

2019

Psychology and Aging

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The research addressed the role of relational processing capacity in cognitive aging focusing on (a) age-differences in complex relational processing, (b) the domain-generality of complex relational processing, and (c) associations of complex relational processing with other processes. Participants were 125 adults in three groups with mean ages of 30.55 (younger), 53.43 (middle), and 74.41 years (older). Each relational processing task (sentence comprehension, n-term premise integration, Latin square) included items at three complexity levels. Accuracy was lower on more complex items and relational complexity had a greater effect in the older group. Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed a single complex relational processing factor, consistent with a domain-general capacity. Relational processing was related to other executive processes. This relationship was stronger in the older than younger and middle groups, possibly reflecting dedifferentiation or neural noise. In structural models with planning (Tower of London) and class reasoning as outcome variables, complex relational processing had a significant impact (β = .455, p < .001 and β = .661, p < .001, respectively) over and above age, processing speed, working memory, task switching, response inhibition, and Stroop interference. In the structural model with fluid intelligence (matrix reasoning) as the outcome variable, age had a significant impact (β = −.222, p < .001), over and above all other variables, suggesting that the processes underpinning age-related declines in matrix reasoning are more diverse than those assessed in the current research. Complex relational processing is an important factor in cognitive aging, possibly reflecting its reliance on prefrontal brain regions.

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Improving children’s affective decision making in the Children’s Gambling Task

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

Does solving distant analogies facilitate relational integration?

Does solving distant analogies facilitate relational integration?

Overweight and Normal-Weight Children’s Decision-Making in a Child Variant of the Iowa Gambling Task

Relational thinking in later adulthood.

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