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Preschool-Age Children's Performance Expectations for Themselves and Another Child as a Function of the Incentive Value of Success and the Salience of Past Performance.
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Stipek, Deborah J.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Confirms the hypothesis that young children can make relatively realistic judgements about future performance if their attention is directed to past performance information. Sixty four-year-olds predicted performance outcomes for themselves or for another child after a series of failures. Results depended on rewards and the salience of past…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Expectation, Failure, Motivation
Communicative Adjustments during Behavior-Request Episodes among Children at Different Developmental Levels.
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Guralnick, Michael J.; Paul-Brown, Diane – Child Development, 1984
Communicative adjustments of nonhandicapped preschool children addressing developmentally delayed companions were evaluated for their effectiveness and appropriateness. Behavior-request episodes in which initial failure had occurred were analyzed, and sequences of interactions were tracked within episodes until some form of resolution was…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Disabilities, Failure
Infant-Mother Attachment at Twelve Months and Style of Interaction with a Stranger at the Age of Three Years.
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Lutkenhaus, Paul; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Children classified as securely attached at 12 months interacted faster and more smoothly with the stranger than did avoidantly-attached peers. Microanalyses revealed different styles of interaction. Failure feedback increased efforts of securely-attached and decreased efforts of insecurely-attached children. After failure, securely-attached…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Failure, Feedback
A New Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control.
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Connell, James P. – Child Development, 1985
Describes a new 48-item self-report instrument, the Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control, which defines children's perceptions of control as understanding the locus of sufficient cause for success and failure. Three dimensions of third- through ninth-grade children's perceptions of control are assessed within three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education