Elizabeth (Liz) Lapidow is a graduate student in experimental psychology in the Early Learning and Cognition Lab at University of California, San Diego. Prior to that she received a thoroughly unfocused BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2014, and then had to tackle the question of what kind of scientific research she wanted to do and how to get to that. She worked in a variety of lab positions that eventually led her to a computational cognitive development lab at Rutgers University, which has been her area of research ever since. Her graduate research is interested in how learners seek to ‘figure out’ the world around them by taking actions and considering possibilities. She is particularly intrigued by questions about how agents learn and reason about causal systems and about decision making during exploration.