The effect of expectation of external rewards on preschoolers’ flexibility.

• Main Author: Leong, Reena ZhenXia.
• Other Authors: Qu Li
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38775
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines whether expectation of rewards influences cognitive flexibility of preschoolers. Four to five year olds (N = 47) were randomly assigned to either reward-informed or reward-uninformed. Children in the reward-informed condition were told they would receive a toy reward if they perf...