Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 567-575.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.05.07

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The Effects of Feedback Type on Children's Learning Performance and the Gender Differences in These Effects

ZOU Yuchen1,2, DING Ying1,3, ZHANG Xuran1, LI Yanfang1   

  1. 1. Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2. Chongqing Nankai Middle School, Chongqing 400030, China;
    3. National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Online:2018-09-15 Published:2018-10-25

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Abstract: The ability to learn from external feedback is particularly important during childhood. Previous studies have found that different types of feedback and reinforcement conditionings (the positive and negative feedback and the monetary and social reinforcement conditioning) had different influences on children's learning performances. In addition, there may be gender differences in the influences of the feedback type on learning performances. In this study, we used two experiments to examined the effects of the positive and negative feedback and the monetary and social feedback on children's learning performances. Experiment 1 examined effects of the positive and negative feedback on children's learning performances in 62 children (range 8-10 years). And experiment 2 examined the gender differences of learning performances in the monetary and social reinforcement conditionings in 133 children (range 8-10 years). These results indicated that, compared with positive feedback, negative feedback had a stronger influence on children's learning performances. In addition, the monetary reinforcement conditioning promoted boys' learning performances better, while the social reinforcement conditioning had a stronger influence on girls' learning performance.

Key words: positive feedback, negative feedback, monetary reinforcement conditioning, social reinforcement conditioning, gender differences

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