Preschoolers' Win-Stay/Lose-Shift Strategy Use in the Children's Gambling Task.

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Seokyung KimInstitute of Child Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-9958-4484

Stephanie M CarlsonInstitute of Child Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7731-9250

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University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development International Student Academic & Career Development GrantUniversity of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development PhD Student Research Grants

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Adaptive decision-making requires flexible responses to environmental feedback and integration of information over time. Win-stay/lose-shift strategies describe immediate responses to outcomes: repeating a choice after a win (win-stay) or switching after a loss (lose-shift). Although these strategies have been examined using the Preschool Gambling Task, no study has investigated them in the widely used Children's Gambling Task (CGT) to our knowledge. Our primary aim was to examine whether preschoolers adjust these strategies as they learn environmental contingencies. Using a shortened (40-trial) CGT with one advantageous deck (smaller rewards, smaller losses, net gains) and one disadvantageous deck (bigger rewards, bigger losses, net losses), we investigated strategy use in typically developing 3-5-year-old children (

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adaptive decision-makingChildren’s Gambling Taskcognitive self-regulationexecutive functionmetacognitionwin–stay/lose–shift strategies

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PMID41594964

DOI10.3390/bs16010023

PMCPMC12837280

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