@article{2016,title={PERCEPTION OF INDIVIDUAL AND PAIRS ACTIVITIES PERFORMANCE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: A COMPERATIVE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY},abstractNode={Competing with each other seems to be a human characteristic that is expressed in a variety of ways. Some researchers think that life has become an endless series of competitions. From the cradle to the grave, people are competing to outshine each other at work, in educational settings, at leisure time and at home Competition is also a common phenomenon among children in preschool. The aim of this study was to explore to determine the satisfaction level of performance and how they perceive their own performance to competitive and noncompetitive environment for pre-school children. Two separate experiments were conducted on two different days of the same week at preschool. Total of 112 pre-school children (61 boys, 51 girls) who attended a preschool participated in the study. Children 's minimum 46, maximum 73 months old and their mean age were found 61.45 ± 6.62 months old. We asked children to make a tower competitive and non-competitive conditions. Then evaluate their performance using facial expressions and stairs were asked to scale and satisfaction. As a result, we observed that children’s stated that under non-competitive task they were 46.4% and competitive task they were 59.8% better performance. We found that children perceive their performance high. Also in both cases the majority of children responded that they felt happy.},author={Sibel SONMEZ},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}