The Impact of Experience With The Role of Another On The Egocentrism of Young Children
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu1555931250433422021-08-03T07:10:40Z The Impact of Experience With The Role of Another On The Egocentrism of Young Children Eull, William H. Psychology Theoretical and empirical explorations of cooperative communication between young children have not explained how cooperation develops. This study focused upon the value to a task involving cooperation. In the task, one child (worker) had to trace a simple figure but he received distorted feedback about his performance. His partner (coach) was to help him overcome his handicap by coaching. Subjects were drawn from Kindergarten and Grade One classes (age range: 5.4 - 8.5 years) and were randomly assigned to seven groups of 14 dyads each. If coached workers performed better than uncoached workers, this would demonstrate that young children can communicate objective information. If coached workers who had themselves experienced the coaching role performed more effectively than coached workers without such experience, this would demonstrate that experiencing the role of the other facilitated the communication between the two children and that such experience was conductive to cooperation. Similar conclusions could be drawn if coaches who experienced their partner's role proved to be more helpful to their workers than coaches who had no such experience. The mirror tracing task permitted three measures: time required, number of errors, and amount of task completed per trial. Principal components analysis yielded appropriate weights for combination of all three scores into a single measure of task effectiveness. A one way analysis of variance was performed on scores from each measure. The results showed that coaching was of no significant value to the workers. Similarly, experiencing the coach's role was of no value to the worker. Having a coach who had once performed as a worker had no effect on the worker's performance. While the individual comparisons yielded no significant results, the over-all F on each measure was significant. Non-orthogonal comparisons suggested that these differences could be accounted for by practice effects. Analysis of the tapes of the coaching permitted description of four coaching styles. Failure to coach adequately was discussed in terms of task complexity, role uncertainties, and lack of reinforcement for team functioning. 1973 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155593125043342 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155593125043342 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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