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Reducing Racial And Gender Implicit Biases: The Effects Of Multicultural Education On A Child’S Preferences And Occupational Aspirations, Bryanna Paskowitz Jan 2019

Reducing Racial And Gender Implicit Biases: The Effects Of Multicultural Education On A Child’S Preferences And Occupational Aspirations, Bryanna Paskowitz

Human Development Honors Papers

This project explored the effect of reducing implicit racial and gender bias and the impact on children’s occupational preferences and aspirations. Participants included fifty-two children aged three, four, and five years old from the Connecticut College Children’s Program in New London, Connecticut. The initial hypothesis theorized that children, regardless of race and gender, would have a preference towards White and male individuals as being “good or nice,” and for most occupational roles. The children would also have a prejudice against individuals of color as being “naughty or bad,” and for most occupational roles. The other hypothesis theorized that after children …


Academic Help-Seeking Behaviors In Young Children, Lindsey Nelson Jan 2017

Academic Help-Seeking Behaviors In Young Children, Lindsey Nelson

Human Development Honors Papers

Private speech and help-seeking behaviors have found new traction through Zimmerman’s conceptualization of self-regulated learners as “metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviorally active participants in their learning….and are aware when they know a fact or possess a skill and when they do not and, unlike passive classmates proactively seek out information when needed and take necessary steps to master it” (1990, p. 4). The current study is a follow-up of Metacognitive processes in Development [MinD], through which researchers Lindsey Nelson and Professor Loren Marulis analyzed metacognitive skills (i.e., knowledge and behavior) using a puzzle task at the Connecticut College Children’s Program Lab …