... Through this technique we could compare the effect of a mild threat with that of a severe
threat on the attractive- ness of playing with the forbidden toy. ... No subject played with
the forbidden toy during the 10 minutes he was alone with it. ...

... Orthogonal to this manipulation during a temptation period, in the reminder conditions, a "janitor's"
remarks called the child's attention to (a) the fact that he was not playing with the forbidden toy
and (6) the initial threat of punishment, while in the control conditions, no such ...

... The most direct and obvious way of accomplishing the former is to devalue the
forbidden toy or increase the value of other, nonforbidden toys or activities. Aronson
and Carlsmith (1963) and Turner and Wright (1964) have recently ...

... Even toddlers begin to become aware of their own distress and take steps to alleviate
negative feelings, such as distracting themselves from a forbidden toy by playing with
a substitute object (Grolnick, Bridges, & Connell, 1996; Kopp, 1989). ...

... Ss were administered a battery of 6 measures (including the MFFT; forbidden-toy, detective-game,
and draw-a-line procedures; and symptom checklists) at a 2-yr follow-up. Findings indicate limited
convergence among some items after controlling for the effects of age and IQ. ...

... 97 Parent physically restrains child during the forbidden-toy task ..... 98 covariates. ... Ratings
of child compliance .81 in the boring and clean-up tasks Child self-regulation ..... One point
each from the .85 forbidden-toy and the snack task Child resists ..... ...

Abstract 1. Conducted 2 experiments in the traditional" forbidden toy" paradigm to test the
hypothesis that derogation of the forbidden toy is a means of making the temptation to play
with the toy less frustrative, rather than of reducing cognitive dissonance. Ss were a total of ...

... Rankings of the toys before and after the temptation period show that Mild subjects lower
the forbidden toy's attractiveness (in line with the dissonance prediction) and Severe
subjects raise its attractiveness (not predicted by dissonance). ...

... Carlson and Wang (2007) examined EF in preschoolers, using several tasks that included Simon
Says (a child is told only to respond when prompted by “Simon says”), Gift Delay (a child is told
to ignore a present being wrapped by the researcher), and Forbidden Toy (a child is ...

... That is, one plaus- ible inference that a child might draw from his behavior of not playing with
the forbidden toy, under low justification conditions, would be that he is a particularly "good"
boy—at least one who complies with adult prohibitions and is able to resist temptation in ...