Relationship between reward-dominant response style and ratings of boys' conduct problems

Administers a version of the Miami Door-Opening Task to 136 NZ boys aged 6-7. Asks parents and teachers to rate them for conduct problems . Gives half the boys a brief cognitive intervention designed to encourage an adaptive, self-regulatory strategy to improve their performance. Investigates whether reward dominance, or the tendency to be influenced by past experience of reward, would override self-regulatory behaviour. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.