Children's Adoption of Self-Reward Patterns: Model's Prior Experience and Incentive for Nonimitation

Effects of a model’s experience on children’s imitation

“…To manipulate experience level, the E employed the following statements: (I) None-"I have only been working with this game for a week and I don't know how children play it." (2) Moderate-"I have been working with this game for about a month, and most of the children wear the DARK BROWN hat, use the WHITE gun, and shoot at the SMALLEST target." (3) High-"I have been working with this game for over a year and I have shown it to hundreds of chiIdren.…”