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Peer reviewedMasters, John C.; Christy, Monica D. – Child Development, 1974
It was hypothisized that socialization within an achievement-oriented culture would encourage children to adjust the amount of self reward according to length and difficulty of a task. Task length but not difficulty was found to influence a self reward in second grade children. (ST)
Descriptors: Achievement, Elementary School Students, Reinforcement, Self Reward
Peer reviewedPremack, David; Anglin, Brian – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1973
Paper presented at Conference on New Approaches to Behavioral Research on Smoking sponsored by the American Cancer Society in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)
Descriptors: Behavior, Individual Development, Motivation, Psychological Studies
Achievement Standards for Contingent Self-Reinforcement: Effects of Task Length and Task Difficulty.
Download full textMasters, John C.; Christy, Monica C. – 1973
It was hypothesized that socialization within an achievement-oriented culture would encourage children to adjust the amount of contingent self-reward according to the length and difficulty of a task. A total of 32 second grade children completed long-easy, long-difficult, short-easy, and short-difficult versions of three tasks and set their own…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Individual Development, Reinforcement
