PSY426H1 Lecture Notes - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Walter Mischel, Likey
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Increases with the values of the delayed rewards relative to the immediate ones. Is susceptible to a variety of social influences. Children who tend to prefer delayed rewards also tend to be more intelligent, more likey to resist temptation, to have greater social responsibility and higher achievement strivings . Experiment children were made to choose between two objects, one favourable and one less favourable, but had to wait 15 minutes (delay gratification) for the more favourable one. Results those who waited longer were described 10 years later by parents to have the traits mentioned earlier. Able to cope with frustration and resist temptation better. It was formerly believed that children could delay gratification by anticipating the gratification mentally, by focussing on thoughts or fantasies but studies showed that it"s actually the opposite. Condition 1: children waited with both the immediate (less preferred) and the delayed (more preferred) rewards facing them. Condition 2: both rewards were present but obscured from sight.
