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Development Of Cooperation Between Children In The Minimal Social Situation, Janice V. Siegel
Development Of Cooperation Between Children In The Minimal Social Situation, Janice V. Siegel
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children can learn to cooperate in what has been described as the "minimal social situation." The research also compared the effectiveness of verbal instructions and a training task for teaching subjects the "win-stay, lose-change" rule. This rule has been used to explain the development of cooperation in the minimal social situation.
Subjects were 19 teams of first-, second-, and third-graders. Five teams were composed of two girls; six were girl-boy teams; and eight were boy-boy teams. Ten of the 19 teams learned to cooperate in the minimal social situation without treatment. …