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Saltzstein, Herbert D.; Goldhammer, Eva – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1990
Thirty-six children from grades 1, 3 and 6 observed and rewarded a peer who played an experimental game. Children experienced a developmental shift in the criteria they used to reward a peer's performance. References to intention-act matches increased with grade and with children's understanding of controllable and noncontrollable tasks and causal…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students