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Peer reviewedBellucci, Georgette; Hoyer, William J. – Journal of Gerontology, 1975
A total of 64 college-aged and elderly women participated in an experimental study of the effects of noncontingent positive feedback on simple speeded performance, performance self-evaluations, and self-reinforcing behavior. Younger women self-reinforced more and held higher self-evaluations of their performance than elderly women. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Change, Feedback, Females
Download full textParish, Thomas S.; Bryant, William T. – 1975
Probably as a result of America's "socialization" process, girls and women have tended to develop rather negativistic views of females. That this negativism may be part of a developmental indoctrination process is further advanced by the present experiment's finding that older girls in this experiment demonstrated significantly less favorable…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Classical Conditioning
