4yearolds dont care much for crummy prizes
Last Updated : GMT 06:49:16
Arab Today, arab today
Arab Today, arab today
Last Updated : GMT 06:49:16
Arab Today, arab today

4-year-olds don't care much for crummy prizes

Arab Today, arab today

Arab Today, arab today 4-year-olds don't care much for crummy prizes

Preschoolers aren't that much interested in stickers
Ramat Gan - UPI

Preschoolers don't care how hard they worked to win a prize. If it's a lame reward, it's likely to go in the garbage. But with age, research shows, kids learn to appreciate the work an uninspiring prize symbolizes.

To value a prize, not for the prize itself, but for the work it took to receive, may seem like behavior that requires maturity. But new research suggests children as young as 6 are less likely to give up relatively crummy prizes if they were earned with hard work. Four-year-olds, on the other hand, have little time for lame prizes -- hard work or not.

"When effort leads to an unsatisfying reward, adults experience a cognitive dissonance, arguably resolved by reappraising the reward's value," study author Avi Benozio, a psychological research scientist with Israel's Bar-Ilan University, said in a press release.

"We found this dissonance to occur already among 4- and 6-year-olds," continued Benozio. "Whereas 6-year-olds reduced the dissonance by keeping their rewards and boosting its value afterwards, 4-year-olds took quite a different approach and detached themselves from the source of the discomfort by getting rid of the unsatisfying rewards."

To study the role of rewards, and how they are valued by young people, researchers divided young children into groups and had them participate in what they called the sticker game.

First, participants played a game to earn their stickers. Next, the participants -- now in possession of an array of stickers (some of value, some less so) -- were asked how many stickers they wished to give away to a child featured in a short video.

The rub was: not all kids earned their stickers equally. Groups were randomly assigned to play either a difficult sticker game or an easy one. Kids in the hard group were asked to complete tasks like "count as high as you can," while kids in the easy group were given easy tasks like "say your name."

Researchers found that 6-year-olds who completed harder tasks were less likely to give away even the ugly stickers than were their peers from the easy group. Oddly, 4-year-olds from the difficult group were even more likely to give away ugly stickers.

"The relationship between people and their 'stuff' is intriguing but the subjective value children attribute to resources has been somewhat overlooked," added Benozio. "Our research suggests that behaviors that appear to benefit another person -- such as sharing stickers -- may actually stem from the relationship that a child has with that object, regardless any potential beneficiary."

arabstoday
arabstoday

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

4yearolds dont care much for crummy prizes 4yearolds dont care much for crummy prizes

 



Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

4yearolds dont care much for crummy prizes 4yearolds dont care much for crummy prizes

 



GMT 15:47 2017 Sunday ,17 December

Alonso edges Chelsea past Southampton

GMT 20:35 2017 Tuesday ,26 September

Military production companies aim at 100% locally-made

GMT 16:39 2017 Saturday ,11 February

Yemen's rebels demand dismissal of UN peace envoy

GMT 01:54 2017 Saturday ,23 September

Venezuela protest death toll rises in renewed violence

GMT 20:19 2016 Thursday ,17 November

Cairo film festival begins with a bang

GMT 02:24 2017 Saturday ,18 November

Hariri expected in France after 'Saudi hostage' rumours

GMT 06:07 2013 Monday ,15 July

Egypt freezes Islamist leaders\' assets

GMT 06:07 2017 Saturday ,30 September

At least 12 Afghan security forces killed

GMT 00:18 2016 Tuesday ,27 September

Probe own brother, ousted Thai PM tells junta chief

GMT 13:22 2017 Friday ,01 December

Ambassadors of Western nuclear powers
Arab Today, arab today
 
 Arab Today Facebook,arab today facebook  Arab Today Twitter,arab today twitter Arab Today Rss,arab today rss  Arab Today Youtube,arab today youtube  Arab Today Youtube,arab today youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2025 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2025 ©

arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday
arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday
arabstoday
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
arabstoday, Arabstoday, Arabstoday