(1971) Fishman, Harold; Matteson, Richard; Human Development & Quantitative Methodology; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
This study was designed to ascertain whether Positive
Social Reinforcement (PSR), Negative Social Reinforcement
(NSR) and the condition of no verbal feedback (Control)
have a differential motivational effect on the achievement
behavior of low socioeconomic status, primary grade Ss. Two
related objectives of this research were : (a) to determine
whether black and white Ss are differentially motivated to
achieve in response to the aforementioned three social
reinforcement-feedback contingencies and (b) to determine
whether Ss who are at different developmental levels are
differentially motivated to achieve by these three classes
of social reinforcement-feedback parameters.
