The
Effects of Verbal Reinforcement Combinations on Children's Moral
Judgments in the Direct, Vicarious, and Double Reinforcement Situations
K. Tamase |
The
effects of three verbal reinforcement combinations, RW, RN, and NW,
upon children's performance on a Piaget's task of moral judgment
were investigated in direct (Exp. 1), vicarious (Exp. 2), and double
(Exp. 3) reinforcement situations. In each experiment first grade
children were run in their classrooms. Positive verbal reinforcement
(Right) was given for the subjective moral judgment and negative
verbal reinforcement (Wrong) was given for the objective moral judgment.
The main results were that (a) the children's moral judgments could
be modified by direct and for vicarious verbal reinforcements, and
that (b) RW and NW combinations were superior to RN combination.
These results were discussed with reference to previous studies on
verval conditioning and other conceptual learning tasks.
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