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Sagotsky, Gerald; Lepper, Mark R. – Child Development, 1982
Explores the generalization of changes in children's preferences for easy or difficult goals, when their preferences are induced by exposure to peer models playing a novel athletic game. Subjects played the same game immediately after exposure, participated in a "spelling bee" three weeks later, and chose puzzles of differing levels of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Standards, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education