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Training Verbal‐Nonverbal Correspondence
Author(s) -
Kurtz P. David,
Neisworth John T.,
Goeke Karl,
Hanson Marci
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1976.tb02407.x
Subject(s) - nonverbal communication , psychology , statement (logic) , significant difference , developmental psychology , referent , control (management) , social psychology , statistics , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , management , economics
This study assessed the influence of strengthening a verbal self‐referent statement on later corresponding nonverbal behavior performed outside the treatment setting. Seventeen preschool children were randomly assigned to two groups: (1) Experimental group, in which subjects were reinforced for repeating anti‐litter statements; (2) control group in which subjects merely repeated statements unrelated to littering. Subsequent paper‐picking behavior in the lavatory was counted. The results suggest that verbal, training can strongly augment the control function of self‐repeated instructions in preschool children despite a time lapse between training and opportunity to perform the behavior, and a difference between the training and the performance settings.