Eighty elementary school children assigned to experimental conditions of modeling, role playing, and modeling combined with role playing, chose significantly more delayed rewards than control children. Findings suggest that modeling is a significant determinant of self-control behaviors. The effectiveness of the role playing procedure was…

Examines strategies adults use to provide the developing child with increased responsibility for controlling his or her behavior. Teachers at a day care center used informative strategies with three- and five--year-olds, but did not use strategies that inhibit behaviors with five-year-olds. (Author/BB)