| Abstrakt: |
An attempt was made to investigate the influence of white and Negro experimenters on the test behavior of 81 white and Negro kindergarten children. A mother-identification test consisting of three pictures of women, one white, two Negro, was employed. Tube conclusions of this study may be summarized as follows: 1. There was a significant difference in the selections of white children. When tested by the white experimenter, the children preferred the white mother and the light-skinned Negro mother. When tested by the Negro experimenter, these children preferred the white and the dark-skinned Negro mother. 2. There was a significant difference in the selections of Negro children. When tested by the white experimenter, these subjects preferred the white mother and the light-skinned Negro mother, but when tested by the Negro experimenter, there was a decided shift to the light- and dark-skinned Negro mothers. 3. It was suggested that the shift in the direction of the color of the investigator be considered an important variable in experimentation with Negro subjects. 4. There were no verbalized racial remarks or remarks about the color of the mothers when the Negro and white children were tested by the white experimenters. When tested by the Negro experimenter, 47.5 per cent of the white children and 38.0 per cent of the Negro children gave spontaneous racial remarks. 5. When the Negro children were tested by the white experimenter, 25 per cent of the children avoided the issue by not making a selection. When tested by the Negro investigator, there were no evading responses from the Negro children. There were few evasions, regardless of the investigator, by the white children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
