Practice what you preach: How adults’ actions, outcomes, and testimony affect preschoolers’ persistence
Across four experiments, we looked at how 4‐ and 5‐year‐olds' (n = 520) task persistence was affected by observations of adult actions (high or low effort), outcomes (success or failure), and testimony (setting expectations—“This will be hard,” pep talks—“You can do this,” value statements—“Try...
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Wiley
2019
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123110 |