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Newswise — AMHERST, Mass.— Moms and dads take note: While you may think letting your preschooler win at Go Fish builds self-confidence, you could actually be doing your child a disservice.

Amherst College psychology professor Carrie Palmquist and former student Ashleigh Rutherford have found that when young kids experience “illusory success” related to a particular task, their ability to formulate and act on judgments they make about their own performance suffers. As a result, the children may become conditioned to ignore valuable information they could use in future decision-making, according to a study coauthored by Palmquist and Rutherford, who graduated from Amherst in May of this year.

The teacher-student research team published a paper about their research in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Their article, which was titled “Success inhibits preschoolers’ ability to establish selective trust,” was also co-authored by collaborator Vikram Jaswal, psychology professor at the University of Virginia. It appears in the journal’s December 2016 issue.

The paper explains the results of a study conducted in Palmquist’s Child Learning and Development Lab on campus. In a series of experiments, Palmquist and Rutherford asked 4- and 5-year-olds to play a hiding game with objects, in which two adult “experimenters” offered them clues. One experimenter gave accurate clues; the other gave inaccurate ones.

Palmquist and Rutherford then manipulated the game for half of the children so that no matter where the kids looked, they always found the hidden objects. The successes of the remaining children were left to chance, meaning that the kids were more likely to find the hidden objects with the helpful adult than the unhelpful one.

Read more here. (Newswise)
 
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