Abstract
SAGOTSKY, GERALD, and LEPPER, MAFX R. Generalization of Changes in Children's Preferences for Easy or Difficult Goals Induced through Peer Modeling. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1982, 53, 372-375. This experiment explored the generalization of changes in children's preferences for easy or difficult goals, induced by exposure to peer models. Elementary school children observed a peer model play a novel athletic game, consistently choosing either difficult or easy goals for himself, or saw no model. Immediately afterward, subjects played this same game themselves. 3 weeks later, subjects participated in a bee, selecting the difficulty level of the words they wished to attempt. 2 months later, in their regular classrooms, subjects were offered a choice of puzzles of differing levels of difficulty by their teachers. During the first session, subjects exposed to a model who preferred difficult goals chose more difficult goals themselves than subjects who had seen either a model who preferred easy goals or no model. 3 weeks later, similar results were evident in subjects' choices of spelling words. Dissociated classroom measures yielded comparable results, for females, 2 months later.
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