CHILDREN'S ADOPTION OF SELF-REWARD PATTERNS" INCENTIVE LEVEL AND METHOD OF TRANSMISSION.

This study investigated the effects of incentive level and method of transmission on children's adoption of a self-reward standard. A 2 × 2 × 3 factorial design with 2 incentive levels, sex of subjects, and 3 modes of training was employed. As predicted, high incentive resulted in greater rule violation than did low incentive when subjects performed alone. Further, as anticipated, modeling and direct training procedures both proved to be effective. A hypothesized "patterning" of rule deviations in the modeling and direct training groups was also found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]