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Peer reviewedSchwarz, J. Conrad; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Choices between an immediate reward and a delayed reward of higher value were presented to 66 children three, four, and five years of age who had been randomly assigned to short or long conditions of delay. Regardless of age, children did not choose the delayed reward. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Preschool Children, Rewards, Self Control
Aschbacher, Pamela Robinson – 1979
This study of self-reinforcement in children's learning looks at two key variables in the self-reinforcement process: the type of reward available and the level of achievement requisite for reward. The study was conducted to clarify the relative efficacy of self-dispensed verbal and tangible rewards for learning. The study also attempted to…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Learning Processes, Preschool Children, Reinforcement
Peer reviewedDollinger, Stephen J.; Thelen, Mark H. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1978
Explores the relative effects of various types of rewards on children's intrinsic motivation. Subjects were 60 preschool and elementary school children. (MP)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Locus of Control, Motivation, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedMoore, Bert S.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
Seventy-six preschool children were given instructions designed to evoke a positive, negative, or neutral mood; they were subsequently given a choice between an immediately available but less perferred reward or a delayed, preferred reward. (BRT)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Delay of Gratification, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedMasters, John C. – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Relationship, Positive Reinforcement, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedMasters, John C. – Child Development, 1973
Study tests the hypothesis that younger children's self-reinforcing tendencies would be governed by prior social comparison concerning the relative amounts of rewards each received by himself and a peer, while older children will take into account whether any observed discrepancy in rewards received is merited or arbitrary. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Grade 2, Peer Relationship
Peer reviewedHudson, Walter W. – American Educational Research Journal, 1971
Evaluates the effects of preschool training and social work services on reading readiness, social maturity, and family dysfunction among children whose parents receive public assistance. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Problems, Learning Readiness
Download full textTarte, Robert D. – 1972
Five studies are reported which examine the free vs. earned reward phenomenon in humans. The 420 subjects were distributed over all grade levels from preschool through college. Candies and coins were used as rewards. In preschool through sixth grade groups, black, as well as white subjects and experimenters were used. The California Psychological…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Mumbauer, Corinne C.; Gray, Susan W. – DARCEE Papers and Reports (George Peabody College for Teachers), 1969
One of the differences in child development caused by the mother-dominant, father-absent structure of disadvantaged Negro families might be the differential development of resistance to temptation in male and female children. It would be expected that girls would be more resistant than boys, that girls would show no difference whether their father…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cheating, Disadvantaged, Factor Analysis
PDF pending restorationToner, Ignatius J.; Smith, Romayne A. – 1975
The present study was conducted to determine if overt self-verbalization by the child during the waiting period would influence his delay maintenance behavior when the delayed reward was present. Subjects were 60 preschool girls in the age range of 33-72 months. Fifteen subjects were randomly assigned to each of four experimental conditions: (1)…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation, Mediation Theory, Overt Response
Nimnicht, Glen; And Others – 1967
In an attempt to improve the readiness of 3- and 4-year-old disadvantaged Mexican-American children, the New Nursery School was developed in Greeley, Colorado. The activities are autotelic; that is, the child does something for its own sake rather than for the sake of obtaining rewards or avoiding punishments that have no inherent connection with…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Equipment, Experimental Programs, Language Skills
Langenfeld, Thomas E.; And Others – 1997
Two studies examined the relationship between preschool and elementary school children's ability to delay gratification and their school behaviors, after controlling for differences in socioeconomic status (SES). Children's gratification control was measured through an age-appropriate dilemma that forced each child to exhibit gratification control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Delay of Gratification, Interpersonal Competence
