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Download full textWhitman, Thomas L.; Taub, Susan Ilene – 1972
This study examined the effects of differentially characterizing a model as "good", "bad", or "neutral" on preschool children's subsequent evaluation and imitation of the model. The model's aggressive and motor behaviors were more frequently imitated than were his non-aggressive and verbal behaviors. Instructions influenced the Ss' evaluation of…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Imitation, Observational Learning
Peer reviewedGoggin, 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
Peer reviewedPerry, 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
PDF pending restorationSerbin, Lisa A.; Connor, Jane M. – 1979
Sex typing among preschool children was investigated by means of a complete experimental design to test which factors maintain sex-typed behaviors, to test whether sex-typed behaviors are learned, and to reduce sex typing. The complete experimental design, it is maintained, allows investigators to focus on the consequences of sex typing rather…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Modeling (Psychology)
