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Zimmerman, Barry J. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cluster Grouping, Conceptual Schemes, Instruction
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Goggin, James E. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
Attempted to clarify the relationship between dependency and imitation using 73 preschool children as subjects. The children's degree of emotional dependency was found to be related to their propensity to imitate the model's irrelevant behavior (i.e. incidential learning). (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Adjustment, Incidental Learning
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Shute, Robert E.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1981
A study was done to determine and describe the level of preschoolers' and first-graders' awareness, attitudes, and practices regarding cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Data strongly reflected the fact that parents and older siblings are very influential in the eventual choices of young children to smoke or not to smoke. (JN)
Descriptors: Family Influence, Grade 1, Health Education, Modeling (Psychology)
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Keller, Martha Freese; Carlson, Peter M. – Child Development, 1974
Nineteen socially isolated preschool children were exposed either to four videotapes in which social skills were modeled (treatment) or to four sequences of a nature film (control). Observations indicated that treatment produced increases in the frequency with which subjects dispensed and received social reinforcement and the frequency of social…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Observational Learning, Peer Relationship, Preschool Children
Kloss, James D. – 1974
This study investigates the possibility that the reinforcement strength of stimuli can be enhanced by observational learning as well as by pairing with unconditioned reinforcers. The reinforcement strengths of two candies were determined for 40 preschool children as measured by rate of response on a button pressing apparatus. The children then…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Control Groups, Hypothesis Testing, Imitation