External rewards and inhibitory control in preschoolers.
This paper examines whether expectation of rewards influences preschoolers’ inhibitory control. Four- to 5- years old (N = 47) were randomly assigned to two groups: Reward-informed group (informed about receiving a toy as reward after completing target task very well) and reward-uninformed group (in...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-393842019-12-10T11:13:19Z External rewards and inhibitory control in preschoolers. Loh, Jun Qin. Qu Li School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology This paper examines whether expectation of rewards influences preschoolers’ inhibitory control. Four- to 5- years old (N = 47) were randomly assigned to two groups: Reward-informed group (informed about receiving a toy as reward after completing target task very well) and reward-uninformed group (informed nothing). The target task was an inhibitory control task, the day-night Stroop-like task. To control individual differences, all children underwent 5 cognitive tasks (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test – Third Edition, Appearance-Reality task, Block Span task, Bear-Tiger task, and Dimensional Change Card Sort task). Results showed that the reward-informed group outperformed the reward-uninformed group in the day-night Stroop-like task though they performed similarly in all cognitive tasks. This indicates that expectation of rewards may facilitate preschoolers’ inhibitory control. Bachelor of Arts 2010-05-21T07:32:05Z 2010-05-21T07:32:05Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39384 en Nanyang Technological University 43 p. application/pdf |
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This paper examines whether expectation of rewards influences preschoolers’ inhibitory control. Four- to 5- years old (N = 47) were randomly assigned to two groups: Reward-informed group (informed about receiving a toy as reward after completing target task very well) and reward-uninformed group (informed nothing). The target task was an inhibitory control task, the day-night Stroop-like task. To control individual differences, all children underwent 5 cognitive tasks (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test – Third Edition, Appearance-Reality task, Block Span task, Bear-Tiger task, and Dimensional Change Card Sort task). Results showed that the reward-informed group outperformed the reward-uninformed group in the day-night Stroop-like task though they performed similarly in all cognitive tasks. This indicates that expectation of rewards may facilitate preschoolers’ inhibitory control. |
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