External rewards and inhibitory control in preschoolers.

• Main Author: Loh, Jun Qin.
• Other Authors: Qu Li
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39384
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...