ArticleChild development perspectives2020
Deciding What to Do: Developments in Children's Spontaneous Monitoring of Cognitive Demands.
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- Capturing the Developmental Changes in Cognitive Control Engagement in Chinese Preschoolers.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory.Psychological science · 2025Article
- Preferential Choice to Exert Cognitive Effort in Children with ADHD: a Diffusion Modelling Account.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Executive Functions in Social Context: Implications for Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Supporting Developmental Trajectories.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2021Article
- Adaptiveness in proactive control engagement in children and adults.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- My Tablet's About to Go Dead! 5- to 6-year-old Children Adjust Their Cognitive Strategies Depending on Whether An External Resource is Reliably Available.Cognitive developmentArticle
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How do children decide which tasks to take on? Understanding whether and when children begin to monitor cognitive demands to guide task selection is important as children gain increasing independence from adults in deciding which tasks to attempt themselves. In this article, we review evidence suggesting a developmental transition in children's consideration of cognitive demands when making choices about tasks: Although younger children are capable of monitoring cognitive demands to guide task selection, spontaneous monitoring of cognitive demands begins to emerge around 5-7 years. We describe frameworks for understanding when and why children begin to monitor cognitive demands, and propose additional factors that likely influence children's decisions to pursue or avoid cognitively demanding tasks.
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