Effects of Contrived information of Female and Male Performance on the Achievement Behavior of Preschool Girls and Boys1
作者:
Jayne E. Stake,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
(WILEY Available online 1976)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 1
页码: 85-93
ISSN:0021-9029
年代: 1976
DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1976.tb01315.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Twenty‐four girls and 24 boys enrolled in a university preschool were given two trials each to perform a marble‐dropping task. After the first trial, subjects in the sex‐appropriate condition were told that children of their sex perform the task better than children of the opposite sex. Subjects in the sex‐inappropriate condition were told that children of their sex perform the task less well than children of the opposite sex. It was hypothesized that sex‐appropriate subjects would set higher goals for Trial 2 than control subjects receiving no information and that sex‐inappropriate subjects would set lower goals than control subjects. The hypotheses were not supported. Instead, children of both sexes set significantly higher goals when told that boys do better at the task. Interpretations of the results
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