Motivation of young children : an experimental study of the influence of certain types of external incentives upon the performance of a task / by Lucile Chase, Ph. D.
"At a time when the doctrine of punishment is being seriously questioned, a study of the effectiveness of various types of incentives is especially appropriate. Experimental work in this problem has long been handicapped by the number of variables to be brought under control and by a lack of su...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City, Ia. :
The University,
1932.
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| Series: | Iowa. University University of Iowa studies in child welfare.
vol. v, no. 3. |
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "At a time when the doctrine of punishment is being seriously questioned, a study of the effectiveness of various types of incentives is especially appropriate. Experimental work in this problem has long been handicapped by the number of variables to be brought under control and by a lack of suitable apparatus for securing quantitative data. Both these situations have been met successfully by Dr. Chase. She has carefully defined and administered the incentives selected and has devised apparatus well adapted to the measurement of their effects on young children. For a sampling of 259 children in the age range of two to eight years it appears that the absence of external incentive is consistently a deterrent to improvement in performance. Even with knowledge of success on the part of the child it is likely that praise or reward in addition will be helpful. Similarly, knowledge of failure is better than ignorance of results, but the addition of reproof or punishment is stimulating, with a slight margin in favor of reproof. In short, the evidence points to a child need not so much for a specific incentive as for some incentive above that of knowledge of results"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |