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- The Effect of Praise and Competition on the Persisting Behavior of Kindergarten Children
- Book
- 1938
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Institute of Child Welfare, Monograph
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The Effect of Praise and Competition on the Persisting Behavior of Kindergarten Children was first published in 1939. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.No. 15, Institute of Child Welfare Monograph SeriesIn this study of five-year-olds, an experimenting psychologist has gone beyond previous investigators and attempted to show what factors in the presentation of a task and also in a child’s permanent social field seem to be related to persisting behavior and motivation.Important for psychologists, school principals and teachers, and all who would understand the effect of incentives, is her finding that the nature of the task and – in at least some instances – the order of its presentation in a series have a marked effect on persisting performance.
Table of Contents
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- I. The Problem
- pp. 3-4
- III. The Experimental Setup
- pp. 20-33
- IV. Analyses of Group Results
- pp. 34-73
- V. Individual Case Studies
- pp. 74-124
- VI. Summary and Conclusions
- pp. 125-127
- Appendix I
- pp. 128-129
- Appendix II
- pp. 130-133
- Bibliography
- pp. 134-135
Additional Information
ISBN
9781452938585
Related ISBN(s)
9780816672264
MARC Record
OCLC
555825195
Pages
144
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No