Educational expectations: a consequence of interpretation or conditioning?
Date
1980-12
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Texas Tech University
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to determine whether parents influence their son's educational expectations by way of a symbolic (cognitive) or by a behavioral process. The parents will be interviewed first, then the sons. My hypothesis is that the symbolic perspective will explain much more of the variance than the behavioral perspective.
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Parent and child, Self-perception, Student aspirations, Behaviorism, Symbolic interactionism