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In volatile environments, however, learned action-outcome contingencies may change too rapidly to be useful. Early experiences in predictable environments may thus encourage people to learn and use contextual regularities to guide behavior, shaping the learning strategies they employ in new contexts. To test this, I will measure real-world environments (via novel experience-sampling and geolocation tracking methods), manipulate lab-based learning environments, and use computational models to assess individual differences in how 7-25 year-olds adapt their learning strategies to varying degrees of predictability. 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