Abstract
BARTON, KEITH. Block Manipulation by Children as a Function of Social Reinforcement, Anxiety, Arousal, and Ability Pattern. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1971, 42, 817-826. 64 fourthand fifth-grade children with high spatiallow verbal (HS-LV) or high verbal-low spatial (HV-LS) ability patterns played with wooden blocks under conditions of social reinforcement or no social reinforcement. Verbal anxiety and physiological arousal were monitored throughout the experiment. Results showed that under social reinforcement the HV-LS subjects used more blocks and made more complex models than did the HS-LV subjects (p < .05). The anxiety and arousal data did not support the hypothesis that anxiety and arousal are increased in HS-LV Ss and decreased in HV-LS Ss in response to social reinforcement.
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