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Rewards, locus of control and ideational fluency in preschool children

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dc.contributor.authorGroves, Melissa M.en
dc.contributor.departmentFamily and Child Developmenten
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-10T21:43:49Zen
dc.date.available2017-03-10T21:43:49Zen
dc.date.issued1984en
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between rewards, locus of control and ideational fluency. Forty-three preschool children were initially administered the Revised Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Preschool and Primary Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale. Based on a median split of the locus of control measure, the children were assigned to either a reward or non-reward condition for the second session. In session two the children were administered two ideational fluency tasks, unusual uses and pattern meanings, under the assigned condition. Four separate 2 (external, internal) x 2 (reward, nonreward) analysis of variance were conducted for four ideational fluency scores (popular, original, total fluency and flexibility scores). No significant effects were found in any of the analyses. However, mean differences suggest that rewards limit ideational fluency while internal locus of-control was related to originality.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentvi, 71 leavesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/76429en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 11173994en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1984.G768en
dc.subject.lcshCreative thinking -- Testingen
dc.subject.lcshPreschool testsen
dc.subject.lcshReward (Psychology)en
dc.titleRewards, locus of control and ideational fluency in preschool childrenen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineFamily and Child Developmenten
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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