年幼的孩子会推断到别人的赞美是否有信息性
Mika Asaba1, Jessa Stegall2, Emily Hembacher3
1Department of Psychology, Yale University.
Developmental psychology
|October 16, 2025
概括
小孩子们明白,赞美提供了有关能力的宝贵信息. 他们可以通过观察赞扬与工作质量的一致性来推断赞扬的信息性,指导他们的选择.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 社会学习理论社会学习理论
背景情况:
- 称赞被认为具有奖励和信息的功能,特别是对于儿童来说,他们评估自己的能力.
- 称赞的信息性各不相同;不分青红白的称赞比与高质量的工作相关的称赞没有那么多意义.
研究的目的:
- 调查4至5岁的孩子是否可以根据其与工作质量的统计关系推断称赞的信息性.
- 探索儿童如何使用推断的赞美信息来引导他们的认可和寻求赞美.
主要方法:
- 与4至5岁的儿童进行了四项实验,使用了亲身学前和在线样本.
- 孩子们根据描述的赞扬质量共变量评估了来自不同假设教师的赞扬的信息性.
- 评估了孩子们为自己寻求赞誉的偏好,而不是另一个具有特定目标的学习者.
主要成果:
- 孩子们赞同老师的赞扬,他们的赞扬与工作质量相关,而不是不分青红白或低质量的赞扬.
- 孩子们在为自己寻求赞美时没有区分教师的偏好.
- 孩子们根据学习者的目标选择性地寻求不同教师对另一个学习者的赞美.
结论:
- 幼儿通过分析表扬与工作质量之间的统计依赖来推断表扬的信息性.
- 孩子们明白,赞美传达的信息不仅仅是积极的强化.
- 赞美所带来的信息性引导孩子的社会判断和战略性信息搜索.
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