Abstract
STIPEK, DEBORAH J., and HOFFMAN, JOEL M. Development of Children's Performance-related Judgments. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1980, 51, 912-914. Children aged 3-8 were asked to make causal attributions for performance on a motor task, reward allocations for the performance outcome, and expectations for future success. Each child made judgments for himor herself and for another child after 1 of 3 performance conditions: consistent failure, consistent success, or consistent improvement. Results indicated that children as young as 3 years old are able to process past-performance information and make realistic performance-related judgments. They are more likely, however, to make logical, adultlike judgments for another child than for themselves. Children tended to make more positive judgments for themselves than for another child, with one notable exception. The expectations of the 7and 8-year-old girls in the failure condition were slightly lower for themselves than for another girl and much lower than the 7and 8-year-old boys' expectations for themselves.
Keywords
PsychologyAttributionTask (project management)Developmental psychologyChild developmentGirlSocial psychology
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- 51
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- 912-914
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- 82
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Deborah Stipek,
Joel Hoffman
(1980).
Development of Children's Performance-related Judgments.
Child Development
, 51
(3)
, 912-914.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1980.tb02634.x
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- 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1980.tb02634.x