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Zimmerman, Barry J.; Koussa, Richard – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
Preschool children interacted with an adult model who was either low or highly rewarding to the child. Later the model displayed either a high or low degree of positive affect as he played with a nonpreferred toy. The model's affect influenced both the children's ratings of and imitative play with the toy. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Learning Processes, Modeling (Psychology)
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Perry, David G.; Bussey, Kay – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1979
Presents a modified social learning theory account of the contribution of imitation to sex role development. Subjects of the two experiments described were elementary school boys and girls. (MP)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Identification (Psychology), Imitation
Bridgeman, Brent; Burbach, Harold J. – 1974
This experiment was designed to assess whether the expected and actual performance of black and white students on an academic task would be differentially affected by the race of the successful models observed. Since males and females might not be equally influenced by the modeling effects, separate analyses were planned for males and females of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Elementary School Students, Expectation