Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2021 Sep;12(5):e1556. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1556. Epub 2021 Feb 15.
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.
在过去的十年中，关于认知控制和决策的研究表明，个体权衡参与或不参与控制的成本和收益，并且他们是否以及如何进行这些成本效益分析可能会随着发展和健康老龄化而改变。在本文中，我们研究了认知能力的寿命年龄差异如何影响整个寿命过程中的行为策略的元控制，以及动机如何影响这些权衡。基于积累的证据，我们提出了两个假设，这些假设可能比当前的模型更好地解释现有的结果。与之前的理论解释不同，我们假设在进行成本效益权衡时的年龄差异反映了对整个生命周期中出现的内部和外部限制的资源理性适应。本文属于以下分类：心理学 > 发展与衰老心理学 > 推理与决策。
