Tutoring homework is a common practice of every parent, and parents' attention is also focused on how their children's grades are and how they can be admitted to an ideal key school. However, parents often seem to ignore their children's feelings. No matter how the external environment affects their growth, children's subjective thoughts are often an important factor in determining the problem.
Xiao Qi is an average child in the school class, and has been in a state of retreating instead of advancing. Xiao Qi's mother thought that Xiao Qi's lack of serious study or solid knowledge would lead to this stagnant state, so she signed up for several remedial classes to strengthen her study in her spare time. However, after a month's examination, she didn't have a job, and Xiao Qi's mother began to become anxious.
Time flies so short. Once again, in the mid-term exam, Xiao Qi suddenly came out on top. Xiao Qi's mother began to wonder what made Xiao Qi make such rapid progress. It turns out that in an ordinary exam, the whole class didn't get any questions right, only Qi got them right. The teacher praised Qi in front of the class. After that, Qi studied harder and harder, and finally gained everyone's appreciation through his own efforts.
What made Xiao Qi become a "top student" from a "school scum"? There is an academic term to explain this phenomenon, which is called "Hawthorne effect". When people realize that they are being paid attention to, they will deliberately change some of their behaviors and realize personal transformation. This is the famous Hawthorne effect.
1924165438+10 In October, a research team mainly composed of Mayo, a psychologist from Harvard University, entered the Hawthorne factory of Westinghouse Electric Company. The so-called Hawthorne factory belongs to a branch of American Western Electric Company. Their initial idea is to try to find effective ways to improve production efficiency and work efficiency by improving external factors such as working conditions in factories. At the beginning of the experiment, they randomly selected six female workers in the workshop as the observation objects. In the following seven stages of experimental tests, the investigators constantly changed factors such as workshop lighting brightness, salary structure, employees' rest time, lunch composition and workshop environment. I hope to find out whether there is some inevitable connection between these factors and production efficiency through this change in the workshop, but unfortunately, no matter how the external factors of the workshop try to change, the results of the experimental group have not changed.
After this experiment, the factory found that the correlation between work efficiency and external factors of the factory is very small, and the consideration of the factory may be related to the influence of employees themselves. Therefore, the factory specially invited various experts in psychology, talked with the workers for almost 20,000 times in about two years, and sent special personnel to listen patiently and carefully to the opinions and suggestions of the workers on factory management, so that the factory workers had the opportunity to release pressure. After this experiment, the workers in Hawthorne factory have significantly improved their work efficiency. Through this experiment, everyone also called this strange phenomenon "Hawthorne effect".
1. eager for attention
After each exam, parents' first reaction is to ask their children's academic performance, instead of carefully observing their mental state and the mental state after the results are announced. Parents pay far less attention to their children's academic performance, so that children will gradually feel helpless and insecure, and will be mediocre and at a loss in their future study and life.
2. Psychological factors
In the process of children's growth, parents care too much about their children's external factors such as grades and rankings, and often ignore their most important inner world. Parents often set many goals for their children to achieve and tell them what will happen if they don't. Children grow up under this pressure for a long time without venting, and often end up on the extreme road.
1. Work and rest.
Most children are out of breath under the pressure of study. Parents should educate their children to study hard, and at the same time, let them do some extracurricular activities, such as doing some sports and listening to some soothing music to release stress. In this way, after children get enough relaxation and rest, they will carry out learning activities more effectively and get twice the result with half the effort.
2. Learn to communicate
Usually, parents and children should communicate more, so that children's problems can be found in time and parents can solve them in time. If the child's mental state and mood are not good, parents can also guide them in time so as not to affect the child's future growth.
3. What are the advantages of using Hawthorne effect to educate children?
1. Self-confidence enhancement
When parents pay more attention to children, children will feel more love from their parents, their self-awareness will gradually rise, and their self-esteem and self-confidence will also be improved. Therefore, parents should treat their children equally in daily life, and don't criticize or belittle their children because of their emotions and other reasons, which will affect their hearts. If parents face their children with a positive attitude, the children will also face the world with a positive attitude.
2. Good at expression and communication
It takes courage for children to express their inner feelings. When parents communicate with their children, listen to their inner thoughts. When children dare to express themselves, it is equivalent to taking the first step. In the future, when children encounter problems, they will first think of communicating with others and expressing their inner thoughts, instead of hiding their own thoughts, and will only follow the footsteps of others.
Parents, do you have any unique views on Hawthorne effect? Welcome to express your thoughts and discuss with us.