Parental Praise and Child Development Findings

Flashcards based on a lecture discussing the effects of parental praise on children's motivational frameworks.

On average, percent of all parental comments to the child were praise.

3

Process praise was percent of all praise.

18

Parental praise patterns showed that percent of boys' praise was process praise.

24.4

There is a relationship between parents praising what a child does ( praise) and the child's belief that effort is worthwhile.

process

Gunderson et al.'s study found a correlation of between process praise and children's later motivational frameworks.

0.35

The ethics of the study could be criticized because the participants were .

deceived

Generalizability refers to the extent to which the results of a study represent the population.

whole

The study found that boys receive more process praise than .

girls

A parent saying 'you are good at reading' is an example of praise.

person

When children believe their actions can be good or bad, they are more likely to adopt an framework.

incremental