Effect of Novelty on Choices Made by Preschool Children in a Simple Discrimination Task

Greene, Frances

doi:10.2307/1126871

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“…Indeed, these predicted results were obtained by a number of investigators who administered only one problem to each child, (Berman & Graham, 1964;Greene, 1964;Greene & Terrell, 1964;Schusterman, 1963;Stevenson & Weir, 1961). When a long series of problems is presented, as in the present experiment and the Levinson and Reese experiment, older children may learn to recognize and respond to a larger stimulus unit than the stimulus object itself, that is, the entire situation of the reward prob-lem.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

Age changes in children's learning set with win-stay, lose-shift problems.

Berman¹,

Rane²,

Bahow³

1970

Developmental Psychology

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The subjects, 4-, 6-, 8-, and 10-year-olds, were tested with 144 two-trial object-discrimination problems in a six-session learning-set procedure. Each child was tested with two types of problems. A single stimulus was presented on Trial 1, rewarded on half of the problems and not rewarded on the remaining problems. On Trial 2 the stimulus was again presented, paired with a new stimulus. Children were required to respond according to a winstay, lose-shift principle. The 10-year-olds met criterion for both types of problems rapidly in contrast to the younger children, who showed very gradual improvement. The win-stay problem was significantly more difficult than the lose-shift problem and age did not significantly interact with type of problem presented. However, during the six sessions 6-and 8-year-olds showed more improvement than 4-year-olds, particularly on the more difficult win-stay problem.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

Age changes in children's learning set with win-stay, lose-shift problems.

Berman¹,

Rane²,

Bahow³

1970

Developmental Psychology

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“…The researchers found that despite different lengths of delay between familiarization and testing, children always preferred to spend the more time looking at novel visual stimuli. Greene (1964) also defined curiosity as a novelty preference; the greater a child's preference for novelty, the greater the child's curiosity. In his study, Greene investigated an alternative hypothesis with the question of whether children's curiosity is actually just problem solving efforts.…”

Section: Novelty Preference As Measure Of Curiositymentioning

confidence: 99%