Term of Award
Spring 1975
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Psychology
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (restricted to Georgia Southern)
Department
Department of Psychology
Committee Chair
Grover Richards
Committee Member 1
Shirley Osgood
Committee Member 2
Paul R. Kleinginna, Jr.
Abstract
The effects of reward of intrinsic behavior in the experimental setting, on subsequent classroom behavior was investigated using three groups. Forty-eight children, who colored in the classroom to a criterion, were ranked from highest to lowest and randomly assigned by threes to one of the following conditions: control, the subject engaged in the coloring activity but was neither promised nor given a reward. Promised, the subject engaged in the coloring activity for a reward. Surprise, subject engaged in the coloring activity and was given a reward as a surprise. The experimental procedure was conducted in a room different from the classroom.
Another measure of classroom coloring behavior revealed the groups were homogenous before and after the experimental procedure but within groups there was a significant decrease from baseline to posttest. The failure to differentiate among the groups was attributed to the reward of behavior in the experimental setting having no effect on subsequent classroom behavior.
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Recommended Citation
Flowers, Mary King, "Effects of Reward on Intrinsic Motivation" (1975). Legacy ETDs. 40.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd_legacy/40
